From demons who torment sleeping humans to hellish creatures for every sign of the zodiac, this mystical manuscript holds a variety of horrors.

The charged particles from the aurora borealis may have been strong enough to affect the ship's navigation and communication systems.

When her Nicoleño tribe left California's Channel Islands for the mainland, Juana Maria stayed behind for 18 years.

These apocryphal biblical texts, mostly written in ancient Greek or Latin, have now been translated into English for the first time and compiled into a single book.

Archaeologists speculate that the seventh-century cemetery was once a part of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of East Anglia.

It can take up to a decade for a human body to decompose from within a conventional coffin, but the "Living Cocoon" can compost a corpse in just two to three years.

All those bizarre creatures in your critterpedia exist — and are even stranger in real life.

Before this discovery, only the bones of cave bears had been found.

It was nearly impossible to bury all the corpses that fell onto the battlefield, leaving some to say that their spirits still linger over a century later.

Earlier studies suggest that the Phoenicians who lived thousands of years ago in the Mediterranean produced large batches of wine to drink and trade with other cultures. This massive winepress proves it.

"I'm not a part of anything. Nothing. My brothers, myself, no one. We're invisible. They’re treating us just like they treated my grandmother."