The man's body featured chilling postmortem alterations, including dislocated legs and a twisted torso, in order to prevent him from rising from the dead.

Tiberius ruled as Rome's second emperor from 14 to 37 C.E., but he wasn't as well-liked as his predecessor Augustus, and he spent much of his reign in seclusion on the island of Capri.

Titled Elimar, this rediscovered study of a fisherman is believed to have been created during Vincent van Gogh's one-year stay at a French asylum in 1889.

Made of lustrous gold and measuring in at just over one centimeter across, this lock was likely made during the third or fourth century C.E.

Throughout the 1980s and '90s, workplace shootings carried out by post office workers across the United States led to the creation of the term "going postal."

Perhaps the world's oldest weapons equipped with a multi-ingredient poison cocktail, these arrowheads were laced with deadly ricin as well as digitoxin and strophanthidin, which can stop the heart.

Bonnie Haim vanished without a trace in January 1993, but it wasn't until 2014 that her son Aaron stumbled across her remains while digging up the backyard of his childhood home.

The oldest-known synthetic pigment in history, Egyptian Blue was first created more than 5,000 years ago and soon became one of the most sought-after dyes as it adorned tombs, palaces, and statues across Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Measuring 31 inches tall, the statue is made of marble and depicts a woman in a flowing garment, perhaps a goddess, whose head and arms broke off long ago.

Most people think of Balto as the heroic dog who saved the town of Nome, Alaska, from an outbreak of diphtheria in 1925, but Togo the Siberian husky was the head of the sled dog team that ran 260 miles in frigid blizzard conditions to help deliver the antitoxin.

One version of the Aztec creation myth tells how Xolotl, the dog-headed god of lightning and fire, slayed his fellow deities and then transformed himself into a salamander in an attempt to hide from death.