After more than a decade on the run, Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout was arrested in 2008 and sentenced to 25 years behind bars — but he was released in a 2022 prisoner exchange for American basketball player Brittney Griner.

While researchers believe the Olmec civilization created the Olmec heads some 3,400 years ago to depict Mesoamerican rulers, their exact meaning remains a mystery.

Archaeologists excavating in northern England discovered a rare knife handle depicting a gladiator, revealing the reach of Roman celebrity culture across the empire.

The murders of 18-year-old Theresa Marcoux and 20-year-old Mark Harnish have remained a mystery for 46 years, but now a man named Timothy Joley has been arrested in connection with their deaths on November 19, 1978.

The 20-foot-deep burial pit holds 123 bodies, and experts are baffled as to how so many people died in such a short amount of time.

Although sumo wrestling is Japan's national sport today, it started as a Shinto harvest ritual more than 1,500 years ago and once even served as a form of combat training for samurai.

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Hadrianopolis in Türkiye uncovered a 1,600-year-old pendant depicting Solomon riding on horseback and attacking the Devil alongside an inscription that reads, "Our Lord defeated evil."

While exploring the tomb of the ancient regional governor Djefaihapi I in Asyut, archaeologists recently discovered the burial of his daughter Idi, a priestess of the goddess Hathor.

Most of the remains date back to the site's time as a workhouse for impoverished citizens of Bristol during the Victorian Era.

The remains of a man found near Norway's Sverresborg Castle may confirm a Norse saga's tale of a victim thrown into a well to poison the water supply during an assault in 1197.

An 1899 copy of The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley, which was checked out of Worcester Public Library in 1973, was finally returned 51 years later.