Elsewhere in this royal grave, researchers found a wealth of weapons, including a spear, sword, dagger, and axe as well as a helmet and bronze vessels that may have once held offerings of food.

Researchers exploring the Roman-era ruins of Heraclea Sintica have unearthed an 1,800-year-old bronze lithulkos, an ancient surgical tool used to remove bladder stones with a hook.

The Second Bill of Rights proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944 was an economic agenda that aimed to provide income, housing, education, and health care to all Americans to ensure "equality in the pursuit of happiness."

The Inca were able to preserve potatoes for astonishingly long periods thanks to a groundbreaking method of exposing them to nighttime frosts followed by direct Sun in order to create a dehydrated product known as a "chuño."

While excavating at Casas del Turuñuelo, researchers happened upon this ancient masterwork adorned with images of griffins, Atlas-like figures, and Achelous, a river god prominent in the Greek and Etruscan traditions.

The Gatling gun was an early machine gun that was first used during the Civil War and would later be deployed against strikers and rioters throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Created over the course of hundreds of years starting untold millennia ago, these paintings appear to depict both humanoid and animal-like figures alongside geometric patterns.

The crew of the Memphis Belle were treated like celebrities when they arrived back in the United States in 1943, and their story boosted public morale during a time when one in five air crewmen never returned home.

Built by the Nuragic civilization nearly 4,000 years ago, the nuraghe towers of Sardinia may have been used as military fortresses, community centers, or even private residences during the Bronze Age.

This two-foot sword was found upright in the ground, suggesting it had been deliberately deposited there as part of a ceremony or ritual.

While analyzing the skeletons of 46 prehistoric hunter-gatherers unearthed near Siberia's Lake Baikal, researchers found 18 cases of the plague.

Dating back 1,900 years, this shrine was carved directly into the quarry's stone walls in the shape of a miniature temple emblazoned with an image of Minerva wearing a helmet while carrying a spear and a shield adorned with an owl.