Smithsonian Magazine offers up a few other ancient creatures that could fit the bill, including Nile crocodiles, goannas, and ...

"Given the octopus' remarkable intelligence, adaptability, and diverse range of survival strategies, it wouldn't be the most ...

In the waters off Türkiye’s western coast, researchers have uncovered a 1,500-year-old shipwreck brimming with thousands of artifacts. The discovery, part of the Blue Heritage Underwater Research ...

Curved, with a double-edged blade, the shotel was one of the most impressive swords in the history of the world. Popular in the ancient kingdom of Dʿmt — present-day Eritrea and northern Ethiopia — it ...

Last year, metal detectorists in Norway stumbled upon a coin and a brooch at a former farm on the country’s west coast. At the time, it was assumed these relics hailed from the Viking Age, but this ...

Over the past 2,000 years, Biblical scholars have pored over questions about Jesus Christ. What did the Christian Messiah look like? How tall was he? What do we know about his race? When and where was ...

When the Five Families were first recognized, what’s now the Bonanno family was known as the Maranzano family. After Salvatore Maranzano was murdered in 1931, Lucky Luciano awarded leadership of ...

The origins of the Gambino crime family are not all that different from those of the Genoveses. In fact, it was Giuseppe Morello’s ally Ignazio Lupo, also known as “Lupo the Wolf,” who started the ...

The history of the Lucchese crime family doesn’t go back quite as far as that of the Genovese and Gambino families. While it was originally formed by members of the Morello gang who had split off, it ...

While the other gangs in the Five Families date back to before the Castellammarese War, the Colombo family didn’t come about until 1928. Then, Joe Profaci put together a bootlegging gang that would ...

Hidden for 1,800 years, a tiny silver amulet buried in a Roman grave near Frankfurt, Germany, has now revealed the earliest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps. In 2018, archaeologists ...