The leather shoe is 12.6 inches long, the equivalent of a U.S. men's size 14.

Antinous was just 19 years old when he drowned in the Nile under suspicious circumstances, and his untimely demise led to him being widely worshipped as a god.

The dolphin mosaic likely dates to the second century C.E. and was part of a villa owned by a wealthy Roman family.

Convicted murderer William Kemmler became the first person to be executed in the newly invented electric chair on August 6, 1890, at New York's Auburn State Prison — but it went terribly wrong.

While depictions of Dionysus competing in drinking contests frequently appear in Roman art, this is the first time a sarcophagus featuring such a scene has been found in Israel.

Archaeologists excavating at the ruins of Gordion just found an ancient Phrygian tomb that might belong to a relative of the legendary King Midas, the ruler who was said to turn everything he touched into gold.

Bobcats in Florida have been documented eating python eggs before, but this is the first time that scientists have found proof of a bobcat killing a python.

Angered by the French monarchy's ongoing tyranny, rebels stormed the infamous Bastille prison in Paris, France, on July 14, 1789.

The Chinese tourist jumped into a pit and "pushed and pulled" at the terracotta warriors, visibly damaging two of them.

The discovery pushes back the record of birds breeding in polar regions around 30 million years.

On March 1, 1954, 23 crew members on the Lucky Dragon were poisoned by radiation when the fallout from the Castle Bravo nuclear test rained down on their ship, which was floating about 80 miles from the detonation site at Bikini Atoll.