The Roman Empire was one of the greatest empires in history. Starting in 27 B.C.E. after the fall of the Roman Republic, the impact of the Roman Empire — and its expansion across Europe and beyond — ...

Described as a reptilian creature with spines along its back, the Chupacabra is a legendary creature of the American Southwest known for attacking livestock and drinking their blood. Few cryptids are ...

Patricio Lujan was a young boy in New Mexico in the 1930s when a normal day with his family in Santa Fe was interrupted by the sight of a strange woman near their property. The family watched in ...

Archeologists conducting a dig underneath the Cressoni Theater in Como, Italy were surprised by the astounding discovery of hundreds of gold coins that date back to the late Roman imperial era in the ...

The graves and burial mound of two Iron Age teenagers have been excavated in Kazakhstan to reveal a treasure trove of fine items. The team of researchers behind the excavation believe that the two ...

In the summer of 1969, members of the Manson Family cult brutally murdered at least nine people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate. The subsequent trials determined that they’d carried out the ...

On Dec. 16, 2000, 31-year-old Mike Williams, a real estate appraiser from Tallahassee, Florida, vanished during what was supposed to be a morning duck hunting trip on Lake Seminole. At first, police ...

An excavation project archaeologists are calling “a game changer” in Motza near the city of Jerusalem, has revealed an expansive 9,000-year-old settlement. According to the Australian Broadcasting ...

Boston, Massachusetts is the most famous Boston in the U.S., but it’s not the only city to bear this name. In Ohio’s Cuyahoga Valley, there was once another Boston. Abandoned in the 1970s and recently ...

For decades following the start of World War II, New Mexico’s history has been entwined with the U.S. government’s nuclear ambitions. From being ground zero of the first atomic bomb testing to the ...

From Jack the Ripper to Jeffrey Dahmer, history is full of tales of vicious murderers. However, few of these stories are quite so disturbing as that of Amarjeet Sada, who is widely considered to be ...

If you’ve ever heard someone say the “sword of Damocles” was hanging over their head, they were likely referring to feeling a sense of impending doom, as if catastrophe could strike at any moment.