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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Established by the Soviet Union in 1957, the Vostok Research Station is one of Earth’s most remote locations. Situated near the south geomagnetic pole in the middle of East Antarctica, it sits atop ...

The Eastern Antarctic Plateau is a vast, desolate expanse near the South Pole where temperatures plunge to astonishing lows. In fact, satellite data revealed that the plateau once experienced a record ...

Nestled high atop the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Klinck Research Station was a remote automatic weather station situated at an elevation of approximately 10,170 feet above sea level. It was located ...

Denali, the Alaskan mountain federally designated as Mount McKinley, is North America’s tallest peak at 20,310 feet. At the summit, temperatures can plummet below negative 75 degrees Fahrenheit, with ...

Norilsk, located north of the Arctic Circle in central Russia, is one of the world’s northernmost cities. Established in 1935 as a gulag labor camp, it has since evolved into a major center for nickel ...

Oymyakon, a remote village in eastern Siberia’s Sakha Republic, holds the title of the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth. There, around 500 residents face some of the harshest temperatures ...