King Tutankhamun's mask was first unearthed when Howard Carter opened the Egyptian pharaoh's coffin in 1925 — and some believe that the ancient tomb unleashed a curse.

Built by Hannes Tiedemann in 1881, Franklin Castle was supposed to be a dream home for an immigrant family — but quickly devolved into a house of horrors.

By analyzing DNA found in Canadian soil samples from thousands of years ago, scientists have adjusted the timeline of the woolly mammoths’ extinction by 8,000 years.

The third son of Abraham Lincoln, William Wallace Lincoln died at the age of just 11 after contracting typhoid fever in 1862.

Richard Cottingham brutally murdered prostitutes he found on the seedy streets of 1970s New York, earning his horrifying legacy as the Times Square Torso Killer.

During World War II, Edward Shames stormed the beaches of Normandy, looted Hitler's Eagle's Nest, and saw the horrors of the Dachau concentration camp.

Over 40 camels were ejected from the annual King Abdulaziz Camel Festival because of botox and "other tampering"

Though tens of thousands of people were crucified, just four skeletons have been found with physical evidence of crucifixion.

Shortly after 81-year-old Jacqueline Avant was found shot and killed at her home, police arrested Aariel Maynor at the scene of a nearby botched burglary.

For over a century, scholars, composers, and activists have hotly debated over Ludwig van Beethoven's race. Here's what the actual evidence says.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt received " a first-of-its-kind lifetime ban on acquiring antiquities" after a yearslong, multinational investigation found he'd purchased looted objects from 11 countries.