Throughout the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the early years of the Gilded Age, Thomas Nast used his political cartoons published in Harper's Weekly to satirize current events, expose corruption, and ...

Recently, the world’s largest ocean exploration initiative announced their discovery of more than 850 new marine species found around the globe. The Ocean Census, created two years ago by the Nippon ...

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 — ...

The Ark of the Covenant is one of the most sacred relics of Jewish and Christian tradition. The chest is said to hold the stone tablets on which the Ten Commandments were originally inscribed, and ...

Linda Napolitano was a typical housewife living in Manhattan with her husband and two children. But everything changed on Nov. 30, 1989, when she claims three gray bipedal creatures abducted her from ...

Beneath a mysterious, hand-carved structure built into the desert canyon walls in Petra, Jordan, archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old tomb containing 12 skeletons. The structure, known as ...

In 1873, a French author named Jules Verne published a novel titled Around The World In 80 Days. The journey was by no means impossible, as all means of travel mentioned in the book were very real, ...

An unsuspecting farmer in Türkiye’s Eastern Anatolia region recently made a groundbreaking discovery: a nearly 1,000-square-foot mosaic from the Late Roman or Early Byzantine period just beneath the ...

The Amityville Horror House is the site of one of America’s most popular ghost stories. The home’s dark reputation dates back to 1974, when Ronald DeFeo Jr. fatally shot his parents and siblings in ...

Sometime before his death in 19 B.C.E, Latin poet Albius Tibullus described Rome as the “Eternal City” in an elegy. And for hundreds of years, that phrase — Roma urbs aeternus est — rang especially ...

For fans of the paranormal, Ed and Lorraine Warren likely need no introduction. For years, the Warrens were the world’s most famous paranormal investigators, digging into a range of alleged hauntings ...

Leo Tanguma's murals at Denver International Airport weren't supposed to be controversial — but fate had other plans. Denver International Airport has an odd history as the source of countless ...