The study's author says these structures built in the 4th century B.C. are the earliest known accessibility ramps ever discovered.

For 1,000 years, villagers have used fishing boats to trap whales in the bay before wading into the water to kill them by hand with knives.

The bull managed to leave a "Coke can-sized" hole in the hunter’s leg — but died shortly after.

In 11th-century Japan, Lady Murasaki Shikibu had a vision that inspired her to write a novel whose vivid scrolls survive to this day.

Count Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès vanished after the murders of his wife and four children in 2011 — and no one has seen him since.

Officially named Advhena magnifica, or magnificent alien, this new glass sponge species found in the deep Pacific Ocean looks a lot like an alien from a Hollywood movie.

From 1943 to 1945, a civilian task force of 345 Allied academics known as the Monuments Men managed to save 5 million cultural relics.

Whether it's elephants, pandas, or kangaroos, there's actually a scientific reason why looking at cute baby animal pictures makes you feel so good.

On December 4, 1926, beloved mystery writer Agatha Christie vanished in a case that remains unsolved today.

On September 1, 1969, about 40 people in Berkshire County, Massachusetts reported seeing a UFO — and one boy named Thomas Reed claimed that he and his family were taken aboard.

A lab experiment modeled off conditions on the two planets showed the high pressure underground likely produces diamonds that fall to the planets' cores.