The gold and amethyst ring likely belonged to someone of great wealth and may have been a family heirloom.

The celebrated British actor claimed to have served in a number of secret organizations during World War II, but some have accused him of exaggerating his role.

A skilled orator and activist, Lady Violet Asquith took Britain’s Liberal Party by storm — and made it onto Hitler’s most wanted list in the process.

The monkey is a capuchin named Gia and belongs to Danielle Thomas, who once performed pole dance routines with it under the name "Pole Assassin."

After remaining sealed for centuries, the burial tomb of Jesus Christ at Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre was briefly opened in 2016.

Despite their immense contributions to the civil rights movement, these activists were largely ignored by the history books.

Because round heads are seen as ideal, Chinese parents are snapping up items that range from pillows and sleeping pads to $4,300 helmets that can help mold their children's skulls.

After amassing a multibillion-dollar empire as the head of the Juárez Cartel, Amado Carrillo Fuentes died during a botched plastic surgery in 1997.

Anthropologists initially declared that the skull, called 'Greta,' was 10,000 years old, but radiocarbon dating shows that it actually came from a woman who died between 1041 and 1163.

Between 1990 and 1995, Keith Hunter Jesperson killed at least eight women and sent letters to newspapers detailing his crimes — all of which he signed with a happy face.

From Indigenous territories in pre-colonial America to the height of the Nazi regime, these maps explain history better than any textbook.