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Three Lions/Stringer/Getty Images CT Scans Reveal the Horrors of Being an Incan Child Sacrifice
Researchers found that children who were sacrificed to appease the gods were drunk and drugged for up to a year before they died.
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bauhaus1000/Getty Images Archaeologists Found Proof of 2,200-Year-Old War Elephants in Spain
If real, it would finally give us the first tangible relic of the elephants that helped reshape Mediterranean history.
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Photo: Tony Garcia / Getty Images The Oldest Gun Ever Found in America Was Left Behind on a Failed Gold Hunt
Researchers also uncovered broken swords, daggers, fishhooks, and pottery.
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Photo by David Brunetti, National Trust Images Archaeologists Uncover 1,500-Year-Old Cremation Vessel Full of Human Bones
One year after researchers uncovered the 6th-century Byzantine Bromeswell bucket, they determined that it was used as a cremation vessel.
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The National World War I Museum and Memorial Why a Kansas City Museum Called in the Bomb Squad to Open a 100-Year-Old Time Capsule
The National World War I Museum and Memorial recently unearthed a 100-year-old time capsule, and took great caution while doing so.
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(fake) Giant Wooly Rhino in the tv show 'Prehistoric Park.' Photo by ITV/Shutterstock 32,000-Year-Old Woolly Rhino Found Preserved In Siberian Permafrost
The woolly rhino is so well-preserved that it still has a lot of soft tissues intact along with a well-preserved horn.
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Photo by Jeppe Gustafsson/Shutterstock French Man Finds a Skeleton in His Basement—Then 37 More
Archaeologists think it was a medieval grave site.
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Rembrandt's 'Unconscious Patient (Allegory of Smell),' painted in 1624. Cocaine Found in 400-Year-Old Brains Rewrites Drug History
The use of cocaine in Europe wasn’t thought to have taken off until the 19th century.
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The Actual Railing from Titanic’s Most Iconic Scene Collapses as the Wreck Deteriorates
A 15-foot section is now at the bottom of the ocean.
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All photos by Yushy Pachnanda The Rival Cliques You’ll Find at Every Medieval Renaissance Fair
Why would a fair maiden ever talk to an actual peasant? Here’s our guide to the social hierarchy of ren fairs the world over.
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View of the submerged stone bridge from Genovesa Cave, Mallorca, Spain. Photo by R. Landreth A Hidden Underwater Sea Bridge Just Changed Our Ideas About Ancient Human Settlement
Researchers made the discovery while diving in a Balearic cave.
