Originally uncovered in 2017 near Lake Biel in Bern, Switzerland by treasure hunters using metal detectors, a bronze-cast prosthetic hand was brought to the Bern Archaeological Service for review ...

The team headed to Harvard University’s Peabody Museum in Cambridge, where they were granted permission to collect the yeast ...

During the spring and summer of 1974, police in the Pacific Northwest were in a panic. Young women at colleges across Washington and Oregon were disappearing at an alarming rate, and law enforcement ...

For decades, researchers have been exploring eastern Spain’s Cova de les Dones, studying its Paleolithic rock art as well as its connections to early Iberian communities. Now, a recent expedition by ...

In July 2018, archaeologists unearthed a sprawling, ancient Egyptian “funeral home” beneath Saqqara. The trove of discoveries pointed toward a substantial funeral industry in ancient Egypt and has ...

A 2,500-year-old burial site nestled away in the Negev Highlands was recently unearthed by archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority. The discovery is shedding light on ancient trade routes ...

While much of Netflix’s hit docuseries Making a Murderer revolves around the conviction of Steven Avery, Avery was not the only person implicated in the disappearance of Teresa Halbach. At the time, ...

During excavations at the Rašaška archaeological site, researchers uncovered the headless and contorted remains of a suspected vampire.

On Dec. 8, 2004, a 25-year-old man named Nathan Gale went to a heavy metal concert at the Alrosa Villa nightclub in Columbus, Ohio — but he wasn’t there to watch the show. The lead act of the night ...

Big Pun’s death in February 2000 came just two years after he became the first Latino rapper to go platinum. He had taken the music industry by storm, and it seemed that nothing could stop his rise to ...

While looking through the archives at the Israel Antiquities Authority, an ancient scroll caught the eye of Professor Hannah Cotton Paltiel of Hebrew University. The scroll had been classified as ...