The discovery was made near the remains of a mummified adult lion, which was found underneath the Saqqara necropolis in 2004.

What Caused The Dust Bowl? While it would be unfair to place the blame entirely on farmers in the 1920s, they certainly played a large role in creating the Dust Bowl. In the decades leading up to the ...

When the Jascon-4 tugboat overturned off the Nigerian coast in May 2013, it made headlines around the world. Most assumed there were no survivors — until three days later, when the ship’s cook ...

When archaeologists recently dug inside and around the historic Saint Bavo’s cathedral in Ghent, Belgium, they found a grisly sight: a wall made out of human bones. According to The Brussels Times, ...

Scientists believe a crater found in the Australian outback may be the oldest-known meteor crash site in the world. In comparison, the next-oldest crater site in the world, the Vredefort crater in ...

Throat lacerations, perforated organs, and pierced hearts are just some of the complications that performers can suffer when swallowing swords, but despite these dangers, only 29 deaths from this ...

On April 6, 1967, a 20-year-old U.S. Navy sailor named Doug Hegdahl was swept overboard in the Gulf of Tonkin. There, he was picked up by a fishing boat and turned over to North Vietnamese forces, who ...

Cheyenne Brando was the daughter of Hollywood icon Marlon Brando and his third wife, French Polynesian actress Tarita Teriipaia — but her life was far from glamorous. Raised by her mother in Tahiti, ...

If you love to drink wine, you have the ancient Phoenicians to thank for making fermented grape juice so popular. The Phoenicians were a civilization of people who inhabited independent city-states ...

A World War I diary journaling the Battle of the Somme has been found in a barn in Leicestershire, England. According to Fox News, it belonged to Pvt. Arthur Edward Diggens of the Royal Engineers. The ...

Sometimes the most valuable treasures are hiding in plain sight, which was certainly the case with a French family when they discovered a priceless painting thought to be lost forever in their attic.