Recently, researchers Olena Veremeychyk and Olga Antowska-Gorączniak took a closer look at eight medieval discs discovered ...

Each Dec. 31, people across the globe gather to welcome the new year, and celebrities are no exception. Over the decades, some of the world's biggest stars have been spotted at New Year's Eve parties ...

While examining a Neolithic burial pit in France’s Rhône Valley in 1984, biological anthropologist Eric Crubézy noticed something unusual: two women lying on top of each other with their legs pulled ...

From treasures discovered amidst the 2,700-year-old ruins of a castle in Türkiye to a scrap of the tent used by George Washington during the Revolutionary War, these historical discoveries made in ...

On July 17, 1999, a beachcomber at Philbin Beach in Martha’s Vineyard came across an unusual find: a business card for a Morgan Stanley financial executive named Lauren Bessette. The name almost ...

In the 1973 novel The Princess Bride, Buttercup and Westley are taken by surprise when they are suddenly attacked by “rodents of unusual size,” or ROUS. The book describes the beasts as a “pure rat ...

In 1946, Alcatraz, the infamous prison island in San Francisco Bay, became the site of a bloody uprising that would later be known as the Battle of Alcatraz. What began as an ambitious escape attempt ...

Author Cormac McCarthy is not known for writing lighthearted novels, but for all the violence and darkness his books are famous for, few are quite so unrelenting as Blood Meridian. It was published in ...

Operation Highjump, launched in 1946, was a U.S. naval expedition to Antarctica led by Rear Admirals Richard E. Byrd and Richard H. Cruzen. Its objectives were to train military personnel in extreme ...

On the day after Christmas in 1996, police in Boulder, Colorado received an alarming 911 call about a missing six-year-old girl named JonBenét Ramsey. “We have a kidnapping,” her mother, Patsy, cried.

Tickling may seem like a harmless and playful act, but it actually has a long and complex history that stretches across different cultures and eras. Its ability to immobilize and cause discomfort has ...

Sending Christmas cards is a beloved tradition that harkens back to 1843. Then, an Englishman named Sir Henry Cole commissioned the first commercial Christmas card. The card in question was designed ...