Homer and Langley Collyer were a pair of brothers whose reclusive hoarder lifestyle made them something of a local New York attraction. Sadly, in a horrifying twist, their hoard became their grave.
From Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo to the sinking of the Titanic, history is full of shocking plot twists, but maybe none were as tragic as the fate of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria. Attractive, rich, and powerful, Rudolf had everything—until the fateful day he threw it all away, changing the course of the future forever.
The charred scrolls of Herculaneum, buried under the ash of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, were long thought to be undecipherable. But new technology has allowed researchers to see what’s written on them.
During a game of basketball, Mick Jagger accidentally bit through his tongue, chomping off the tip and swallowing it, affecting his speech and voice.
Failure was not an option for the legendary magician, Harry Houdini—but ironically, this only drove him to his horrifying end.
In 2018, scientists made a discovery of stone tools at Ain Boucherit, Algeria, dated to approximately 2.4 million years ago. The find challenges our previously held notions about the development of early humans.
In 2021, researchers at White Sands National Park in New Mexico uncovered fossilized human footprints estimated at 23,000 years old. That would place humans in North America thousands of years earlier than previously thought. The discovery has spurred excitement as well as doubts among archaeologists.
A Kentucky farmer stumbled on one of the biggest troves of Civil War gold coins ever found, fuelling the dreams of treasure hunters from all across America.
In 1988, during excavations of a sewer beneath a bathhouse in Ashkelon, Israel, archaeologists discovered the remains of nearly 100 infants.
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