A local woman out for an evening stroll along the beach at Pedda Rushikonda on India's eastern coast recently stumbled upon a 700-year-old statue of Vishnu, Hinduism's supreme deity and creator of the universe.

The iron shackles date back to the 3rd century B.C.E. — and they might help experts further understand slavery in Ptolemaic Egypt.

Stunningly preserved due to the oxygen-poor conditions of the bog, this iron armband retains its decorative pattern featuring intricate rows of dots as well as the miniature animal heads that make up its two ends.

Analysis of 348 genetic samples taken from 34 countries revealed that, across prehistoric and ancient Europe, 63 percent of people had dark skin, 29 percent had "intermediate" skin, and only 8 percent had light skin.

The rise of industrialism in the decades following the Civil War brought untold wealth to the United States. But beneath the lavish lifestyles of the robber barons, millions of Americans were living in dismal conditions.

Professor Martin Becker of New Jersey's William Paterson University shipped 19 boxes of fossils to a colleague in Florida — then they were dumped in a Tennessee landfill by UPS because the university failed to make their payments.

Ty Vaughn told police that his fiancé, Luis Banos, died by suicide inside their Baystown, Texas apartment on January 14 — then investigators uncovered his incriminating Google search.

So far, archaeologists have excavated six 2,400-year-old amphorae that seemingly contain the remains of young children.

In Scandinavian legend, Björn Ironside was the son of Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok who led successful raids across Europe in the ninth century C.E. before becoming a ruler of Sweden and Norway and founding the royal Munsö Dynasty.

From Antarctica's remote Vostok Station to the bustling Russian city of Yakutsk, these places frequently see temperatures drop well below zero and are covered in snow and ice for the majority of the year.

On January 2, 2009, Jett Travolta hit his head on a bathtub while having a seizure during a family vacation in the Bahamas, a tragedy that his father John Travolta later called "the worst thing that's ever happened in my life."