The tourist could face a fine of at least $15,000 and a prison term of up to five years for defacing the historic site in Rome.

Archaeologists excavating an ancient religious sanctuary discovered a large burial mound that seemed to serve as a solar calendar, leading some to dub it the "Stonehenge of the Netherlands."

While smallpox blankets may be a popularly accepted truth in American history, there is just one recorded case of colonists giving disease-infected blankets to Indigenous Americans.

Born in Tunis, Tunisia to Sicilian immigrants in 1938, Claudia Cardinale never intended to become a movie star — but fate had other plans.

The 80 million-year-old fossils, belonging to an Elasmosaurus and a mosasaur, were discovered in the Maungataniwha Native Forest on New Zealand's North Island.

The piece of graphite, likely once used as a pendant, was discovered in Mongolia and predates any other known artistic depiction of a phallus.

A marine creature from Scottish folklore, the Loch Ness Monster is one of the most famous cryptids in history — but is it actually real?

Used during the Middle Ages, oubliettes were pit-like prisons where doomed victims were left to slowly starve or go mad.

The rare octagonal sword may date to the 14th century B.C.E. and was found buried with a man, woman, and child in Bavaria.

The meaning of Humpty Dumpty has remained mysterious for centuries, but there are some possible historical explanations for the nursery rhyme.