After winning four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and upending Hitler's ideas about Aryan supremacy, Jesse Owens became one of the most legendary athletes in history.

The world's oldest wine was discovered in a funerary urn that also contained the ancient remains of a cremated man as well as a gold, two-headed Janus ring.

The 2,500-year-old stone was created by the ancient Tartessos people who lived on the Iberian peninsula between the ninth and sixth centuries B.C.E.

A beer-guzzling, tobacco-spitting gunslinger known for her rowdy temperament, Calamity Jane remains one of the most notorious figures in Wild West lore.

After Randy Weaver was caught illegally selling weapons in 1992, federal agents planned to arrest him at his home in Ruby Ridge, Idaho. But he had no intention of going quietly.

Its white exterior crowned by a classic triangular pediment sitting atop a massive door gives way to a majestic interior in which frescoes depicting the Twelve Labors of Hercules once adorned the walls.

Accused of declaring himself the son of God and the "King of the Jews," Jesus was crucified in the Roman province of Judaea in 30 or 33 C.E.

Discover the most enthralling mythical creatures from folklore and fairy tales — and learn about the legends that inspired them.

The labyrinth was discovered at the highest point of Papoura Hill in Crete and was probably some kind of "community building."

The tallest person in the world was Robert Wadlow, who famously stood 8 feet, 11 inches tall. But he's far from the only exceptionally tall person from history.

After noticing the word "Jesus" in the text, researchers realized that this seemingly insignificant papyrus contained a part of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which had been left out of the Bible.