"Beer is a quintessential Mesopotamian food stuff ... It really defines Mesopotamian identities in many ways." ...

The team headed to Harvard University’s Peabody Museum in Cambridge, where they were granted permission to collect the yeast ...

Love is in the air at the historic Whittington Hall in the English county of Lancashire. In 2023, a metal detectorist searching near the grounds discovered a gold ring bearing the words “present my ...

A German serial killer active in the early 20th century, Peter Kürten tortured and killed at least nine people and attempted to kill dozens more, often by stabbing them with a pair of sharpened ...

Between 1936 and 1938, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin killed at least 700,000 people during a blood-soaked purge of political opponents, real or imagined, in a ...

On May 5, 2017, 18-year-old Brooke Skylar Richardson attended her senior prom at her high school in Carlisle, Ohio. Less than 48 hours later, she secretly gave birth to a baby girl in her bathroom at ...

The Incas May Have Deliberately Built Machu Picchu Along Fault Lines. Here’s Why.

Dead bodies aren’t typically known for smelling good, but according to a new study, the carefully embalmed bodies of ancient Egyptian mummies are an exception. The study, published in the Journal of ...

Rediscovered some 200 years ago, the ancient Egyptian temple of Esna has held 2,000-year-old secrets in its walls that are just now seeing the light of day. Thanks to an ambitious restoration project ...

In most Christian churches across the West, the Virgin Mary is portrayed with light skin, much like her son Jesus Christ. But an estimated 400 to 500 versions of the Madonna portray her with dark skin ...

During the spring and summer of 1974, police in the Pacific Northwest were in a panic. Young women at colleges across Washington and Oregon were disappearing at an alarming rate, and law enforcement ...

Benito Mussolini’s death on April 28, 1945, marked the end of a dark chapter in Italian history. After seizing power in 1922, the dictator ruled his country with an iron fist. Although he was deposed ...