The discovery that Neanderthals and not Homo sapiens likely created the artwork is challenging longstanding beliefs that ...

The third man phenomenon is most often seen in people facing extreme peril in which they felt a presence that helped lead ...

Modern-day Nativity scenes typically depict Jesus Christ in a manger, surrounded by his parents, angels, and animals. This ...

There is some debate about what the first department store was, but the BBC awarded that title to Harding, Howell & Co's Grand Fashionable Magazine in London, which opened in 1796. At first, the shop ...

The field of demonology has been heavily obscured over the years, especially in recent decades amidst Satanic Panic in America. In a sense, the study of Biblical demons has often been oversimplified ...

Woolly mammoths may seem like prehistoric creatures that died out long before early humans ever built large cities or created a system of writing, but the massive mammals actually lived much more ...

These wrongful conviction cases led to people spending years — or even decades — behind bars for crimes they didn't commit. The American justice system has never been perfect, but the general premise ...

In 2011, an impressively well-preserved woolly mammoth was dug out of the Siberian permafrost. With the species having met its extinction some 4,000 years ago, finding such a relatively pristine ...

As pipe layers and engineers, Jannick Vestergaard and Henning Nøhr are likely accustomed to their day-to-day operations in Denmark’s fourth-largest city, Aalborg. So, pulling a medieval sword out of a ...

In 1990, excavations of the tomb of high priest Caiaphas, who plotted the killing of Jesus, yielded a stunning find: two Roman-era iron nails. They mysteriously disappeared until filmmaker Simcha ...

When shoppers peruse their local thrift stores, they aren’t usually expecting to find rare historical artifacts. For these 11 lucky thrifters, however, that’s exactly what happened. Discoveries ...