Archaeologists discovered a 500-year-old bronze cannon that was carried by one of the first European expeditions into the New World, Spanish conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado's 16th-century journey into the American Southwest.

A small hearth uncovered in Vanguard Cave in Gibraltar was likely part of an intricate system in which Neanderthals carefully heated rockrose leaves to extract a sticky tar they used to make weapons and tools.

On May 11, 2022, gravel racer Anna Moriah "Mo" Wilson was found murdered in Austin, Texas — and her killer soon fled the country.

The thieves were caught after one of them posted a photo of himself posing with a stolen relic on Facebook.

The dazzling 300-carat necklace is made of 500 diamonds and has ties to Marie Antoinette and the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

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.