Though mobster Vincent Asaro was acquitted of participating in the infamous 1978 Lufthansa heist and strangling a man with a dog chain, he was eventually brought down by his road rage.

Created in the ancient city of Sippar in present-day Iraq, these Babylonian tablets feature the warnings and predictions of royal astronomers whose job it was to watch the night sky and report the omens foretold in the stars to the king.

This lavish burial could shed light on the little-understood period between the collapse of the Kitan Empire around 1125 C.E. and the rise of the Mongol Empire under Genghis Khan in 1206 C.E.

Virginia Hill went from an Alabama farm girl to one of the most powerful women in organized crime, charming her way through the Chicago Outfit and winning over notorious mobsters like Charles Fischetti and Bugsy Siegel.

The small figurine resembles a bear or a boar, and it is in remarkably good condition.

Gabriele Amorth claimed that he performed more than 100,000 exorcisms between 1986 and 2016 — but he said that only 100 of them were true cases of demonic possession.

Known as the "forgotten battle," May 1943's Battle of Attu was the only clash during World War II that was fought in North America.

Known as one of the most disturbing serial killers in Canadian history, Robert Pickton met his own gruesome end when a fellow inmate at Quebec's Port-Cartier prison drove a spike into his skull on May 19, 2024.

Dating back to the 17th century, Warsaw's tunnels known as the "Masonic graves" have sparked archaeological curiosity in recent years — and new research could reveal a connection to the Freemasons and their rumored catacombs.

Based on the mineral composition of the Altar Stone, researchers believe it may have come from Scotland and was thus transported more than 450 miles around 5,000 years ago.

The discovery marks the first time a Columbian mammoth tusk has ever been found in the state.