Women like Mae Capone and Victoria DiGiorgio Gotti stood behind their gangster husbands for better or for worse.

The research team uncovered the treasure while examining a field in Årdal, Norway ahead of the construction of a new road.

Archaeologists excavating caves in Malaysia's Nenggiri Valley unearthed 16 Neolithic burials and more than 71,000 prehistoric ...

After seeing a post on social media, 68-year-old retiree John Ralph decided to sign up for a dig at a Pictish site in Burghead, Scotland. Over the course of the excavation, Ralph picked up a number of ...

Last Friday, Carlsbad Caverns National Park announced in a Facebook post that a discarded Cheetos bag has wreaked havoc on the cave’s ecosystem. A visitor had dropped the Cheetos bag in the Big Room, ...

To this day, the story of the Manson Family members is a haunting tale of corruption, power, and how one man with enough influence convinced his followers to commit truly reprehensible acts. Most ...

Jessie Misskelley Jr., Jason Baldwin, and Damien Echols were convicted of killing three boys in a cult-like ritual in May 1993 — but then they were later released in 2011. In May 1993, three young ...

For years, researchers have known about the centuries-old gallows in Quedlinburg, Germany. The city was a prosperous trading center beginning in the Middle Ages, and by the late 17th century, the city ...

These torture devices from the Middle Ages will make you glad you live in modern times. Picture a dark, dank cell. The dripping of water. The skittering of rats. And the tortured moans of the people ...

The history of forced labor camps in Russia is a long one. Early examples of a forced-labor-based penal system date back to the 17th century, when the tsar instituted the first "katorga" camps in ...

The Spanish Donkey, also called the “chevalet” or simply the “wooden horse,” was one of the cruelest of the medieval torture devices. Thought to have emerged during the Holy Inquisition in ...

A team of archaeologists excavating the site of a sunken shipwreck recently announced the discovery of a remarkable 3,600-year-old Minoan dagger with silver rivets. The dagger was uncovered amid ...