As East Germany begins to construct the Berlin Wall, guards are sent to watch over the temporary line of barbed wire separating the east and the west. One East German guard, Konrad Schumann, takes ...

Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called "the wickedest town in the West" because of its proliferation of bars, ...

In 1907, Ida Wood called up two of her close relatives, booked a room at the Herald Square Hotel in New York City, and shut the door. As the years passed, she and the others stayed firmly ensconced ...

Routine dredging work in the Netherlands’ Korte Linschoten River in March 2024 led to the discovery of a rare, 1,000-year-old sword with an “endless knot” motif engraved on its blade. The symbol is ...

The Mount Tambora eruption in April 1815 was the most powerful volcanic blast in recorded human history. The stratovolcano on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa had been dormant for centuries — and then ...

Dozens of military helmets from World War I and World War II were recently found just steps from the University of Wrocław Institute of Archaeology in Wrocław, Poland. As construction workers were ...

Although many in the modern day associate the Soviet Union with Russia, it was one of the world’s largest multi-ethnic states, comprised of 15 republics. The Soviet Union’s first census, conducted in ...

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Magna, also known as Carvoran, is a fort located near Hadrian’s Wall, which was constructed by Emperor Hadrian in 122 C.E. to secure the Roman Empire’s northern border. Positioned at the junction of ...

Katarzyna Zowada, a 23-year-old university student based in Kraków, Poland, mysteriously vanished on Nov. 12, 1998. She was supposed to attend an important therapy appointment that day, so her mother ...

The earliest painting to ever be exhibited by Joseph Mallord William Turner, better known as J.M.W. Turner, was long known to be “Fishermen at Sea” in 1796. However, a new discovery has just upended ...

In the ancient world, more than 2,000 statues were built to honor a young man named Antinous. He had been born in a far-flung corner of the Roman Empire, and would have been little remembered if it ...