While excavating a basilica in the ancient city of Ephesus in western Türkiye, archaeologists unearthed the sarcophagus of a Roman gladiator dating to the third century C.E.

While preparing for construction of a gas pipeline in eastern Bulgaria, archaeologists unearthed an ancient Roman necropolis complete with cremation pits, several mysterious stone structures, and a chariot.

Excavations unearthed 38 skeletons and 10 sarcophagi that were deposited at the site over the course of 700 years, between the third and 10th centuries C.E.

With discoveries dating back 9 million years, researchers have unearthed the remains of saber-toothed salmon, whales, dolphins, and megalodons.

On the morning of September 30, 1999, Hisashi Ouchi, Masato Shinohara, and Yutaka Yokokawa were preparing uranium-enriched fuel at a plant near Tōkai, Japan, when they triggered a nuclear reaction that killed Ouchi and Shinohara and exposed hundreds of others to high levels of radiation.

For thousands of years, people in Ireland deposited these butter slabs in peat bogs as a way to preserve them — and sometimes even buried them as offerings to the gods.

Cypriot dwarf hippos and elephants were a fraction of the size of their mainland counterparts, but Stone Age humans likely hunted them to extinction 12,000 years ago.

Globidens alabamaensis had unique, globular teeth that were perfectly suited for crushing the shells of turtles and mollusks.

Mafia wives like Mae Capone and Victoria Gotti stood behind their mobster husbands for decades — and sometimes even indulged in the criminal lifestyle themselves.

The Sasayamagnomus saegusai specimen found in Japan was about three feet long and weighed 22 pounds, making it much smaller than its relative the Triceratops.

Yōkai are supernatural beings like kappas, demons, and even haunted household objects that have appeared in Japanese art and folklore for centuries.