New research into Greco-Roman sculpting has revealed the true extent to which "admiring a statue in the ancient world was not just a visual experience, but also an olfactory one."

On August 30, 1892, shipping magnate Peter G. Minch set out with his family and 22 crewmen aboard his ship, the SS Western Reserve, for a pleasure cruise through Lake Superior — but a storm sank the vessel, leaving all but one of them dead.

A stone slab that's been sitting in a high school for more than 20 years contains the "one of the highest concentrations of dinosaur footprints" ever found in Australia.

Divers exploring the remains of Asini found significant ruins of port infrastructure including a large platform that's mostly retained its original shape as well as a wealth of amphorae and assorted artifacts.

The animal bone tools, the oldest ever discovered, were likely used to remove meat from the carcasses of creatures like hippos and elephants.

On June 20, 1944, a 22-year-old bombardier from Cleveland named Robert T. McCollum was flying in a B-24J Liberator over the Baltic Sea near the coast of Denmark when his plane accidentally collided with another aircraft in their own formation.

The sketch was completed by English portraitist George Romney in the late 1700s and depicts his friend and patron Henrietta Greville, Countess of Warwick.

When Monika Fritzl was 14 years old, she learned that her grandfather Josef was also her father — and he had held her mother captive in the family basement as a sex slave for more than two decades.

In 1777, British troops raided the Continental Army's storehouses in Connecticut and burned vast caches of food — but when one general expressed his concern in a letter to George Washington, the future president responded with steadfast resolve and optimism.

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Ptolemais on Libya's Mediterranean coast recently explored a Roman-era villa adorned with a haunting mold of a human face that looks like it's trying to break through.

While preparing for demolition of one office building and construction of another right in the heart of London, workers just uncovered remains of the city's original Roman basilica.