Researchers have uncovered evidence that the names carved into this 1,900-year-old vase refer to specific gladiators, Memnon and Valentinus, and that the piece was commissioned as a custom keepsake to commemorate their battle.

The flush toilet, the oldest of its kind ever found in South Korea, was likely used by a crown prince and the high-ranking women who lived at Donggung Palace.

Anna Haining Bates and her husband Martin Van Buren Bates both stood almost eight feet tall and spent most of their adult lives performing in sideshows.

A young woman between the ages of 17 and 22, the "Ballymacombs More Woman" suffered a grisly demise, including having her throat slashed and her head chopped off.

After collapsing on stage while performing with her duet partner Marvin Gaye, Tammi Terrell was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor — which would lead to her untimely demise on March 16, 1970 at age 24.

Gibellula attenboroughii, a fungus that hijacks arachnids and forces them to crawl out into the open so it can better spread to other hosts, was first observed on a dead spider in Northern Ireland.

The sinkhole held the remains of animals like early horses, sloths, giant armadillos, and possibly even a new species of tapir.

The 80,000-year-old stone blades also reveal one path Homo sapiens took when migrating from Africa to Asia.

An analysis of seven 2,500-year-old skulls uncovered at the Iron Age settlements of Ullastret and Puig Castellar in northern Spain revealed that the majority of them belonged to people who weren't local to the area, suggesting they may have been prisoners of war.

Considered both the protector of pharaohs and the patron of physicians, Sekhmet was one of the most terrifying and revered Egyptian gods.

The 300-year-old posy ring is inscribed with the words "present my affection."