During renovations at St. Andreas Church in Eisleben, workers uncovered 816 coins hidden inside a statue during the Thirty ...

Recently, researchers Olena Veremeychyk and Olga Antowska-Gorączniak took a closer look at eight medieval discs discovered ...

Jordan Belfort, the infamous Wolf of Wall Street, surely needs no introduction at this point. From serving time in prison for defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars to writing a ...

The Hope Diamond is not named because it inspires hope. Instead, the famous gemstone was named after a British gem collector. And the diamond itself has a tumultuous history full of death, tragedy, ...

For nearly a century, scientists have believed that a skull discovered in the ancient Turkish city of Ephesus belonged to Cleopatra’s half-sister Arsinoë IV. Unearthed in 1929 at a magnificent ...

Cleopatra Selene II had a turbulent life from the beginning. Born to Cleopatra and Mark Antony amid their alliance following Julius Caesar’s assassination, Cleopatra Selene II entered the world during ...

Orichalcum is a metal shrouded in mystery. First mentioned by ancient Greek writers around the seventh century B.C.E., orichalcum was described as golden and almost otherworldly. The term itself ...

The examination of a 99 million-year-old fossilized millipede trapped in amber is bringing scientists to rethink the evolution of the entire millipede species. According to a study published in the ...

Awe-inspiring discoveries at the Pompeii archaeological site keep coming with the recent uncovering of a highly well-preserved horse — still harnessed and in its stable. The animal was killed in a ...

Corporations, musicians, and even game designers faced allegations of dabbling in Satanism in the 1980s and 1990s as Americans seemed to see the devil around every corner — but why? In 1983, police in ...