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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

If you love to drink wine, you have the ancient Phoenicians to thank for making fermented grape juice so popular. The Phoenicians were a civilization of people who inhabited independent city-states ...

Cheyenne Brando was the daughter of Hollywood icon Marlon Brando and his third wife, French Polynesian actress Tarita Teriipaia — but her life was far from glamorous. Raised by her mother in Tahiti, ...

Sometimes the most valuable treasures are hiding in plain sight, which was certainly the case with a French family when they discovered a priceless painting thought to be lost forever in their attic.