On April 11, 1986, the FBI tracked two serial bank robbers down to a Miami side street. But when they tried to apprehend the ...

Take Marcus Antonius Exochus, whose story is told on his tombstone. Though much of his life and death remains a mystery, it is known that he traveled from his home of Alexandria, Egypt, to Rome in ...

Since the 1950s, some scholars have hypothesized a dual ancestry model to explain how the population of Japan first took shape thousands of years ago. This model posits that the native Jomon people ...

Anyone who has seen a happy cat has seen it knead: stretch out, purr, and gently massage the closest object (or person) with its paws. Now, archaeologists in Jerusalem have discovered the earliest ...

Recent excavations of a Neolithic site in Sandomierz-Mokoszyn, Poland, uncovered something completely unexpected. An archaeological team that was originally trying to confirm the existence of a ...

There are millions of schools around the world, with more than 100,000 in the United States alone. These institutions are deeply embedded in countless communities around the globe. The typical student ...

Elaine Parent, a notorious con artist and murderer, operated for decades in the United States and England using more than 20 stolen identities. She began her career as a legitimate real estate agent ...

Between March and December 1898, two lions dubbed the “Man-Eaters of Tsavo” carried out a brutal killing spree on railway workers near Kenya’s Tsavo River. In the end, the lions killed dozens of ...

In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, embarking on a voyage that would change the course of history. While his disputed discovery of the New World is well-known, the mysteries ...

On South Korea’s largest island, Jeju, there is a community of women known as the Haenyeo. The Haenyeo are divers who specialize in gathering seafood like conches, seaweed, and octopuses. Some Haenyeo ...

More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek historian Herodotus wrote such a gruesome account of the burial rites of the Scythian people that modern-day scholars have dismissed his work as pure exaggeration.

On the snowy peaks of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth, the dark object in the snow stood out. It was not trash, a piece of equipment, or a protruding stone. It was a boot with a sock ...