In 2022, the skeleton of a young woman once suspected of being a "vampire" was unearthed by archaeologists in Poland. Her body was discovered in a 17th-century graveyard, with an iron sickle around her neck and a triangular padlock on her big toe, supposedly to prevent her from wreaking havoc from beyond the grave.
A skeleton that was found in Poland close to Kraków and is estimated to be 7,000 years old may have belonged to a Neolithic farmer.
Amateur archaeologist Sam Osmanagić made headlines in 2008 with his adamant claims that the world’s oldest and largest pyramids are actually in Bosnia, near the city of Visoko. He insisted that they were built 12,000 years ago by an advanced ancient society, and his stories about them became increasingly more abstract in the following years.
The find of the tomb beneath the coastal city of Alexandria dates back 2,000 years and has puzzled archaeologists.
The famed lost city of Atlantis may have been found in a rather unlikely place — the Sahara Desert.
The Judaculla Rock is a sacred site for the Cherokee people and is said to be the work of the Slant-Eyed Giant, a mythological figure who once roamed the land.
A cavern in Israel is the source of both legendary tales and factual accounts, and it has now been discovered to be a "portal to the underworld".
How did the ancient Egyptians look like 2,000 years ago? Did they have dark skin and curly hair? A Virginia-based laboratory has successfully recreated the faces of three mummies using their DNA.
Stories of ancient atomic warfare can be found in ancient texts and in physical evidence from Egypt to Pakistan.
The medieval Battle of Visby left behind a mass grave of children and elderly soldiers still wearing their chainmail.