From the brutal murders of the Great Purge to the millions sent to the gulags, the NKVD made the Soviet Union a horrifying place to live.

While searching a construction area in Altenberge, hobbyists found a rare blade from the Bronze Age that remains surprisingly intact, with no significant pieces missing.

In 480 B.C.E., King Leonidas of Sparta led 7,000 Greek troops against as many as 300,000 Persian soldiers at the Battle of Thermopylae — and the Greeks may have won if they hadn't been betrayed.

Spanning a whopping 43,000 square feet, roughly the size of eight basketball courts, this massive villa stood in what was then the city of Autisiodorum between approximately the first and fourth centuries C.E.

On December 6, 1917, two ships collided in Nova Scotia's Halifax harbor — triggering a devastating explosion and tsunami that killed 1,800 people.

Dennis Hof had gained a reputation as a notorious brothel owner and reality TV star when he died in 2018, three weeks before an election for the Nevada State Assembly, which he won posthumously.

After metal detectorists found brooches on Senja Island, a team of archaeologists conducted a full excavation and discovered the Viking woman and dog burial.

Researchers believe this fingerprint was meant to form a face on a stone, perhaps making this one of the earliest works of art ever created by our early human cousins.

Marlene Warren's husband Mike had been having an affair with a woman named Sheila Keen at the time of Marlene's murder on May 26, 1990 — and 27 years later, Keen pleaded guilty to killing her.

The condom is believed to have come from a high-end Parisian brothel and features an erotic drawing in which a nun offers herself to three aroused clergymen.