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After reading about the coin hoard in Poland uncovered by a father and son, discover the story of the Defenestration of ...

Winters (in real life blond, but played by the red-haired Damian Lewis in the TV show), was born on January 21, 1918, in New ...

The object has archaeologists stumped. It’s made with bamboo, a plant that is not native to Switzerland (but was introduced ...

Some say everything is bigger in Texas, and they’re right — at least when it comes to ancient fauna. According to Smithsonian Magazine, a new analysis from the University of Austin revealed that the ...

On August 21, 1986, a catastrophic event now known as the Lake Nyos disaster unfolded at Lake Nyos in Cameroon. A mix of carbon dioxide and water droplets, previously trapped in the lake’s depths, ...

Between 1934 and 1963, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary was one of the most feared prisons in the United States. Its location in the middle of San Francisco Bay, surrounded by rough, frigid water, made ...

The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Türkiye is nothing more than ruins today. But in its heyday, it was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The first Greek temple ever to be constructed ...

The murder of Faith Hedgepeth shocked the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in September 2012. The 19-year-old student was beaten to death in her bed — and nobody knew who did ...

In 2013, the trial of Jodi Arias captivated America. The petite young woman was accused of murdering her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in an extremely gruesome fashion. Not only that, but her trial ...

George “Machine Gun” Kelly was a Tennessee gangster who got his nickname from his favorite weapon, the Thompson submachine gun. During Prohibition, Kelly was a notorious bootlegger, but his most ...