"People would make devotional offerings in the form of animals as mummies. This would have more potency as a blood sacrifice, compared to stone or wooden images."

Pvt. Arthur Edward Diggens' diary was written in pencil and spans from February 13, 1916 to October 11, 1916. It ends rather abruptly — but not because the soldier was killed in battle.

The shoes belonged to a child named Amos Steinberg, who was deported to the camp with his mother in 1944. Neither survived.

Experts were stunned by the level of craftsmanship and precision in something built using only stone, bone, and wooden tools.

The temple is believed to be the site where Jesus miraculously healed a bleeding woman.

The bottle contained human teeth, fish hooks, and a mysterious liquid. It was found during roof repairs on the former home of Angeline Tubbs — an accused witch in the 18th century.

Experts believe this is the first evidence ever found of a Viking woman with a battle injury.

En Esur is an astounding feat of urban planning, complete with flood-proof roadways and massive silos for food storage.

"[The] triumphal arc, which was built in the 3rd century in memory of the Roman Empire's victory against the Persians, looks magnificent."

Thanks to modern-day genome sequencing technology, we now know more about Japan's ancient world than ever before — and all because of a tooth.

Thanatotheristes degrootorum, "Reaper of Death" in Greek, is a tyrannosaur that lived about 79 million years ago, which pushes the tyrannosaur family's history back by about 10 million years.