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Alexander and his army first marched through the city in 331 BC while chasing Darius III, the king of Persia, back to Iran. The British MuseumQalatga Darband. When Iraqi archeologists were examining spy plane photographs of the country’s landscape, they were shocked to find evidence of an ancient city. Fox News reports that researchers at the Iraq Emergency Heritage Management Training Programme first discovered this ancient city while examining declassified satellite photos....

Young people on the latest HIV drugs can now expect to live almost as long as the average population thanks to advances in medicine. It wasn’t too long ago that an HIV diagnosis was as good as a death sentence. In the 1980s and 1990s, the misunderstood disease was believed by many to be a sort of “gay cancer,” and was claiming young lives at a startling rate. Though there is still no cure for the virus today, recent research shows that those living with the disease can finally expect to live fairly normal lives thanks to new advances in medication....

On August 25, 2001, 22-year-old R&B singer Aaliyah died along with eight others when the private plane she had chartered to Miami crashed in the Bahamas. Catherine McGann/Getty Images Aaliyah died on impact when her plane crashed just a minute after takeoff. At the time of Aaliyah’s death in a plane crash, the 22-year-old was busier than ever before and living her pop star dreams. A groundbreaking R&B singer, Aaliyah had grown up determined to be a star and took voice lessons and auditioned for television shows as a child....

Comfort women were women and girls taken from occupied territories by Japan’s Imperial Army during World War II and used as sex slaves in what were called comfort stations. Their struggle didn’t come to light until decades later. Though it has been minimized and underplayed, the story of the “comfort women” who worked in Japanese military brothels during World War II is a shocking one that warrants more attention. After all, these women were basically sex slaves....

The Earth is filled with natural wonders, carved and sculpted by nature’s passage of time. Mountains and rivers chiseled by ancient glaciers dot the global landscape, along with waterfalls, caves and marshes. Surprisingly, many of these impressive features can be found in America, across its expansive 3.8 million square miles. Wild locations like Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon are well known for their beauty and landscape, but a plethora of just-as-beautiful others are hidden throughout the nation....

“The odor of animal feces and ammonia permeated the inside of the residence, which caused several of the responders to experience dizziness and nausea.” ABC NewsDonna Roberts and some of the dogs rescued from her home. New Jersey State Police arrested a woman on Nov. 13 after 44 dead dogs were reportedly found wrapped in plastic and kept in various freezers in her home. An additional 161 living dogs were also found in the home and being kept in deplorable conditions....

By outing the Naples Mafia with his 2006 book, Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano put his life on the line. He’s been under police protection ever since. Wikimedia CommonsRoberto Saviano speaking at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, in 2011. Roberto Saviano is living proof that journalism is often one of the least appreciated yet most dangerous professions. The Italian journalist rose to fame in 2006 when, at just 26 years old, he published his book Gomorrah, which exposed the crimes of the notorious Camorra criminal organization based in Naples, Italy....

The discovery also helps support the theory of continental drift. Scientists have discovered a new species of frog in the Western Ghats mountain range in southwestern India. Spoiler alert: it won’t be winning any beauty contests. The frog is being called Bhupathy’s purple frog after Dr. Subramaniam Bhupathy, who died in the Ghats in 2014 and who no doubt would be thrilled that this blobular frog-beast has been named in his honor....

The new study claims to be helping young people by providing them services, but some critics claim it will “infantilize” young people’s efforts to step into adulthood. BBCThe bubble of adolescence could be expanded to include young people as old as 24. Just when you thought you had left adolescence firmly behind you, it turns out it’s much closer than you think. A new study in the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal claims that young people have changed the boundaries of adolescence by continuing their education and delaying milestones like marriage and parenthood....

In 1979, Hannelore Schmatz achieved the unthinkable — she became the fourth woman in the world to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Unfortunately, her glorious climb to the mountain’s peak would be her last. Wikimedia Commons/YoutubeHannelore Schmatz was the fourth woman to summit Mount Everest, and the first woman to die there. German mountaineer Hannelore Schmatz loved to climb. In 1979, accompanied by her husband, Gerhard, Schmatz embarked on their most ambitious expedition yet: to summit Mount Everest....

From 1992 to 1999, Luis Garavito preyed upon and brutalized as many as 400 children and teenagers across Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela — and he’ll be up for parole soon. Inside an isolated maximum security prison in Colombia there is a man named Luis Garavito. Living separately from the other prisoners for his own protection, Garavito only takes food and drinks given to him by those he knows. His guards describe him as relaxed, positive, and respectful....

Three-toed skinks are among a handful of species that can lay eggs and bear live young. But they might be the only ones to do both in a single litter. Nadav Pezaro/Australian GeographicResearchers observed a three-toed skink lizard give birth and lay eggs within the same litter for the first time. Upon first glance, it is clear that the three-toed skink or Saiphos equalis is an unusual creature. Not only does the small reptile look like a cross between a salamander and a snake, but this native Australian species may still be evolving....

Grasshopper found in Van Gogh painting, prehistoric cave lion unearthed in Russia, ancient wolf-sized otter discovered in China. A Real Grasshopper Was Just Found In The Paint Of A Van Gogh Masterpiece Wikimedia CommonsVincent Vang Gogh, “Orchard Trees” 1889. Great works of art often hide secrets, but few are as odd as the real grasshopper discovered in a Vincent Van Gogh painting. Art curators at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo....

Some 300 climbers have died on Everest, and two-thirds of their bodies are left out on the mountain. Wikimedia CommonsMount Everest has taken the lives of 300 climbers since the first attempt to reach the summit in 1921. Mount Everest has seen quite a bit of foot traffic since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit in 1953. According to Fox News, 5,200 people have hiked to the top — and that means countless mountains of trash left behind, which volunteers are now trying to conquer....

Tim Lambesis of the Christian metal band As I Lay Dying lost his way in 2013, doing the opposite of what any good Christian would do – soliciting the murder of his estranged wife. Chelsea Lauren/Getty ImagesTim Lambesis of As I Lay Dying performs at the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival on June 30, 2012 — less than a year before he would try to have his wife killed. In April 2013, metal musician and bodybuilding obsessive Tim Lambesis approached a fellow gym member in an Oceanside, California, branch of Pure Fitness with a bizarre request: He wanted to have his wife killed....

Tony Costa was convicted of brutally murdering and dismembering Patricia Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki in 1969, but he’s suspected of killing as many as eight women over a three-year period. IMDbTony Costa was known in Provicetown, Massachusetts as a handsome hippie who was charming with women. In 1969, police in Truro, Massachusetts unearthed the bodies of four women who had been mutilated almost beyond recognition. They were the victims of Tony Costa, who soon became known as the “Cape Cod Vampire....

Under the hood with the Ku Klux Klan, absurd vintage men’s underwear ads, inside New York’s modern tenements, harsh life in Soviet Lithuania, five disorders almost too crazy to be real. Vintage Men’s Underwear Ads You Won’t Believe Actually Existed Modern male underwear models might make you a little uncomfortable, but these vintage advertisements take it to a whole new level. From high-waisted grandpa briefs to shaving cowboys to camo onesies, these ads have a little bit of something for everyone....

This is far from the first recorded discovery of a goat with eerily human-like features in recent years. https://www.facebook.com/Noordelyse/videos/pcb.333793007045621/333791787045743/ A strange mutant goat has terrified an Indian village and taken the internet by storm with its odd, human-like face. Images of the goat first made their way online earlier this month when they were posted to Facebook by Samiraa Aissa, a curator of viral internet content relating to animals. The video and images of the goat that Aissa shared have since racked up more than 60 million views....

In 1945, while flying low in a haze of heavy fog, a B-25 Bomber made a wrong turn in New York City and crashed into the Empire State Building. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: How Elvita Adams Jumped From The Empire State Building’s 86th Floor And Lived To Tell About It The Tragic Story Of Aaliyah’s Death And The Plane Crash That Killed Her...

“When you come see us on Christmas Eve will you please bring us some little toy ducks and chickens for a present, also a canvas stocking like you brought us last year.” BBCThe vintage letter found inside an old book. A letter that dates back an impressive 120 years was recently discovered in England. The letter was written by a Victorian girl and is dated Dec. 2, 1898, according to the BBC....