Today, Greco-Roman statues are striking in their simplicity due to their stark white coloring and blank eyes. But, during antiquity, these statues were actually brightly colored — and, as explored in ...

Of all the esteemed warriors in Viking history, few reached the renown of Björn Ironside. Like his father, Ragnar Lothbrok, Björn appears frequently in old Viking legends and Scandinavian histories — ...

From Antarctica's remote Vostok Station to the bustling Russian city of Yakutsk, these places frequently see temperatures drop well below zero and are covered in snow and ice for the majority of the ...

The Roman Empire was one of the greatest empires in history. Starting in 27 B.C.E. after the fall of the Roman Republic, the impact of the Roman Empire — and its expansion across Europe and beyond — ...

While modern-day monkeys are quite clever, fossils found near the border of Peru and Brazil have revealed just how smart their ancestral species really were. A new study found a crew of now-extinct ...

Conrad Murray was once a respected physician, until the day Michael Jackson died while under his care. On June 25, 2009, the world was stunned when the King of Pop suddenly perished at the age of 50 ...

While installing a new gas line in Sestu, Sardinia, construction workers unearthed an amphora — a tall jar with two handles and a narrow neck — and immediately reported the discovery to the ...

Recently, the world’s largest ocean exploration initiative announced their discovery of more than 850 new marine species found around the globe. The Ocean Census, created two years ago by the Nippon ...

On a summer night in 1892, the SS Western Reserve set out for a leisurely cruise through the Great Lakes. But disaster struck midway through the voyage and the ship, considered one of the safest ...

In January 2009, 16-year-old Jett Travolta — the son of actors John Travolta and Kelly Preston — was found unconscious in his hotel bathroom at the Old Bahama Bay resort on Grand Bahama Island. He had ...

Almost 26 years after the Columbine massacre, a new victim has been added to the death toll, bringing the total to 14. On Feb. 16, 2025, 43-year-old Anne Marie Hochhalter died of sepsis, a condition ...

In 2017, archeologists were conducting an excavation on the grounds of a Protestant church located in the center of Cologne, Germany when they discovered ancient walls lying beneath the church.