Since the 1950s, some scholars have hypothesized a dual ancestry model to explain how the population of Japan first took shape thousands of years ago. This model posits that the native Jomon people ...

There are millions of schools around the world, with more than 100,000 in the United States alone. These institutions are deeply embedded in countless communities around the globe. The typical student ...

The image of serial killer John Wayne Gacy dressed up as his alter ego, Pogo the Clown, is chilling, like something out of Stephen King’s It. One of history’s most notorious serial killers, Gacy ...

Take Marcus Antonius Exochus, whose story is told on his tombstone. Though much of his life and death remains a mystery, it is known that he traveled from his home of Alexandria, Egypt, to Rome in ...

British doctor Thomas Kwan, 53, who donned a wig, fake facial hair, and a medical mask to secretly poison his mother’s former partner, has pleaded guilty to attempted murder, according to police in ...

On the snowy peaks of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth, the dark object in the snow stood out. It was not trash, a piece of equipment, or a protruding stone. It was a boot with a sock ...

More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek historian Herodotus wrote such a gruesome account of the burial rites of the Scythian people that modern-day scholars have dismissed his work as pure exaggeration.

Recent excavations of a Neolithic site in Sandomierz-Mokoszyn, Poland, uncovered something completely unexpected. An archaeological team that was originally trying to confirm the existence of a ...

In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, embarking on a voyage that would change the course of history. While his disputed discovery of the New World is well-known, the mysteries ...

In November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, sank into the frigid waters of the Weddell Sea near Antarctica. Now, new images show how the ship has fared at the bottom of the ocean ...

On South Korea’s largest island, Jeju, there is a community of women known as the Haenyeo. The Haenyeo are divers who specialize in gathering seafood like conches, seaweed, and octopuses. Some Haenyeo ...

The 1980s and 1990s were a pivotal period for the goth subculture, which originated in Britain thanks to the ongoing popularity of punk and the rise of "alternative" fashion. Before long, the allure ...