Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov attempted to contact the Sentinelese Tribe that lives on North Sentinel Island in the Indian ...

On August 18, 2010, 30-year-old Ben McDaniel put on his scuba gear and descended into the underwater cave of Vortex Springs near Ponce de Leon, Florida. McDaniel had been scuba diving since he was 15, ...

Although the historic eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius and its subsequent destruction of the city of Pompeii happened in 79 A.D., archaeologists are still making new discoveries that reveal the ...

On the night of Feb. 20, 2003, The Station nightclub fire in West Warwick, Rhode Island, became one of the deadliest in U.S. history. When the band Jack Russell’s Great White took the stage just after ...

For the past two and a half years, archaeologists of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have tirelessly worked to uncover the 5,000-year-old city of En Esur. According to Newsweek, experts believe ...

During renovations of a soccer field in Vienna last fall, construction workers came across a startling sight: dozens of skeletons buried in the ground. Archaeologists investigated the scene and ...

For centuries, the stories of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table at Camelot have stood among the most famous legends in Western history. First popularized in the 12th century, these ...

The defeat of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 is widely believed to be due to the inclement weather in England. But a new study suggests that Napoleon’s misfortune ...

In April 1978, about two months after she went missing, the body of Kimberly Leach was found in a shed near Florida’s Suwannee River State Park. The 12-year-old girl was the final victim of notorious ...

In a sea of medieval jesters, Roland the Farter stands out as one of the most unique performers in history. Roland the Farter, or Roland le Petour, was a 12th-century jester known for his comedic acts ...

Today, Pompeii is best known for the devastating 79 C.E. eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried the city under layers of rock and ash. However, Pompeii’s history stretches far beyond its sudden and ...

Roman gladiator events so often show up in movies, legends, and the like that it’s sometimes hard to remember that these bloody spectacles actually once happened in real life. And Turkish ...