Thawee Nanra said that he was the "father of all religions" and that eating his bodily fluids and skin could cure all illnesses.

Though almost 2,000 years old, the white marble altar is well-preserved and its mournful inscription clearly legible.

Before Leona Helmsley went to prison for tax evasion in 1989, she owned some of New York City's most luxurious hotels and was infamous for her legendary cruelty towards her employees.

In ancient Egypt, the sacred ibis was often used as a sacrifice to Thoth, the Egyptian god of the moon, reckoning, learning, and writing.

Operation Mincemeat allowed British intelligence operatives to trick Hitler into thinking that the Allies were about to invade Greece and not Sicily — leaving the Nazis vulnerable and changing the course of World War II.

66-year-old retired geologist Jim Fitton pocketed a few stones at the ancient site of Eridu in southern Iraq and was later arrested at the airport when officials searched his bags.

Nine years after his conservative family was featured on the ABC show "Wife Swap," Jacob Stockdale fatally shot his mother and brother before attempting to kill himself.

In the months leading up to his demise on September 26, 2012, Johnny Lewis broke into a woman's apartment, punched a man outside a yogurt shop, and tried to kill himself.

The monkey is apparently a cross between a proboscis monkey and a silver langur and may indicate that Borneo's ecosystem is strained.

Using 3D technology, scientists have now brought these expansive, 1,500-year-old mud glyphs to life.

In the 1980s and 1990s, gay men were frequently attacked in Sydney and sometimes forced to jump from the city's cliffs.