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

Archaeologists found the remains of three children under the age of four alongside the artifact — suggesting that it was once ...

Hundreds of millions of trees die from lightning strikes worldwide every year, and as the climate changes, that number is ...

The wreck of the RAAF plane Baltimore FW282, which was shot down by the Nazis in December 1943, was found in the Aegean Sea ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln seemed to be in good spirits. The Civil War was ending, his son had just returned home from the army, and he and his wife Mary had plans to see a play that ...

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 ...