A brilliant polymath, Benjamin Franklin was just 11 years old when he became an inventor — and he went on to create a wealth of innovative devices that would change America forever.

Many of the skeletons appear to have been dug up and decapitated — in order to keep these suspected vampires from rising out of the grave.

In ancient times, decimation was used by Roman military leaders to brutally punish their own soldiers for cowardice and insubordination.

The new facial reconstruction of King Tut, which used new technology and drew on old research, suggests that the young Egyptian pharoah had the face of a "delicate" student.

The TikTok deepfakes are realistic and disturbing, and run the risk of re-victimizing murder victims' families.

Though Abraham Lincoln had four sons, his last undisputed direct descendant, Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, died in 1985, apparently ending the family line.

Jung Yoo-jung, 23, is accused of killing a stranger after developing an obsession with true crime books and TV shows.

After 20 years of bloodshed, the Vietnam War came to a chaotic end on April 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese forces stormed the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon.

Legend holds that the lost city of Rungholt was swallowed by the ocean in 1362 as punishment for its inhabitants' sins.

Deep-sea recovery group Magellan combed through hundreds of thousands of images to build the digital recreation of the doomed ship that revealed the necklace.

Morris Wortman, 72, was facing multiple lawsuits over the fertility fraud when the plane's wings broke apart mid-flight, killing him and his pilot.