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Until the foundation of Alexandria, Thônis-Heracleion served as Ancient Egypt’s largest port city on the Mediterranean Sea, where Greek merchants dominated trade. Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and AntiquitiesThe 2,200-year-old vessel was flat on the bottom and spanned 82 feet. Divers off the Mediterranean coast of Egypt have just discovered the remarkable remnants of an Ancient Greek military vessel. The ship was wrecked in the second century B.C. and hasn’t been seen for thousands of years — as it lay hidden in the ruins of a sunken city called Thônis-Heracleion....

Asha Degree’s disappearance baffled police when she went missing from her North Carolina home in the early hours of Valentine’s Day in 2000. They still don’t know where she is. Asha Degree vanished from her Shelby, North Carolina, home before dawn on Valentine’s Day in 2000. Her parents had tucked her into bed without issue the night before. After midnight, when a nearby car accident left the family’s neighborhood without power, Asha’s father went to check on her and found her still sound asleep....

Forty percent of Americans can’t pay for basic needs like food, housing, or healthcare. And so one industry has stepped in to harvest the most valuable thing they’ve got: blood. CSL PlasmaA promotional image from CSL Plasma, one of the most successful corporations in the industry. The United States of America was once a titan of industry, where manufacturing and technological advancements rocketed the economy to unfathomable heights. Unfortunately, those days are long gone, as about 40 percent of Americans say they struggle to pay for food, housing, utilities, or healthcare....

Because the bones have cut marks, researchers suggest that the colonists ate the dogs during a period of severe famine. Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation (Preservation Virginia)Researchers were able to extract DNA from some of the dogs’ teeth which suggests they were indigenous animals. They say dogs are man’s best friend. But for starving colonists in 17th-century Jamestown, indigenous canines may have been dinner. Dog bones found at Jamestown, studied by University of Iowa Ph....

Despite growing global acceptance and evidence that they reduce crime, conjugal visits are disappearing in the U.S. — here’s why. In pop culture and the public imagination, “conjugal visits” are a trope that tends toward either the lurid or the comic, conjuring up images of sex with prisoners and providing fodder for both porn and sitcoms. In reality, conjugal visits — which are now often known as “extended family visits” — exist around the world so that prisoners and their families can maintain healthy connections with one another....

Pennelope Pettersen expected to see her cat when she opened her porch blinds, but saw something wildly different. Cox Media GroupPennelope Pettersen demonstrates her method. A fearless Florida grandmother has used her dentures to fight crime — successfully. Pennelope Pettersen of Titusville, Fla. got an unusual wake-up call on Sept. 28 around 2 a.m. when she heard noises from her back porch. She opened up her blinds to find a one Axel Rivera remove his clothing and begin to “gyrate” in a “lewd manner,” according to Florida Today....

If there’s one thing that can be said about the general, it was that he sure was confident. Wikimedia CommonsGeneral John Sedgwick, posing in his uniform. “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.” These words were uttered by General John Sedgwick just moments before a Confederate bullet hit him in the left eye, killing him instantly. The irony of his last words and unexpected death are better remembered today than Sedgwick’s military legacy, which led him into the path of that bullet at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in the American Civil War....

Listen to this rare, 130-year-old recording of the famous voice that made the first phone call ever, recently restored by the Smithsonian. Left: Alexander Graham Bell. Right: Bell’s original patent drawing for the telephone. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons “Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you.” On March 8, 1876, those immortal words traveled via telephone line from the mouth of Alexander Graham Bell to the ears of his assistant, Thomas Watson....

The widely overlooked conflict of the Winter War changed world history forever. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 1 of 31Finnish troops wear gas while on skis. Circa 1940.Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images 2 of 31A Russian soldier sits frozen to death minutes after being shot by a Finnish sniper. 1940.Keystone/Getty Images 3 of 31A Finnish soldier holds a Molotov cocktail....

Since Theresa Kachindamoto’s time as senior chief in the Dedza district of Malawi, the country has increased the legal age of marriage consent from 15 to 18. TwitterTheresa Kachindamoto, senior chief in Malawi’s Dedza district. Theresa Kachindamoto’s time as senior chief of the Dedza district in Malawi was largely spent on a singular issue: child marriages. Though she understood they were culturally accepted and borne out of financial necessity, the practice struck her as one that brought deep, irreparable harm and simply had to be eliminated....

In the end, the very thing that almost prevented Vesna Vulović from becoming a flight attendant is what ultimately kept her alive. YouTubeA young Vesna Vulović in her flight attendant uniform. On the evening of January 26, 1972, Bruno Honke heard screaming coming from a hillside just outside of his village in Czechoslovakia. As he went to investigate, he came across a grisly sight: the wreckage of an airplane, torn apart by an explosion....

In spite of their size, hummingbirds are incredibly aggressive. Unfortunately, no amount of defense can keep them immune from the effects of climate change. While the smallest bird in the entire avian kingdom, hummingbirds still pack a colorful punch when it comes to their magnificently iridescent feathers. From bright crimson red to luminous emerald, to even a modest brown color, hummingbird feathers are extremely intricate- and there are over 300 species of this extraordinary bird spread throughout the Western hemisphere!...

For 42 years, Hoffa’s disappearance has spurred innumerable conspiracy theories and urban legends. Have we now solved the mystery once and for all? Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesJimmy Hoffa at the Teamster’s Union Convention in Florida. October 1957. The mystery of what happened to union leader Jimmy Hoffa has baffled the public ever since his disappearance from a Michigan parking lot 42 years ago. Now, CBS Detroit reports that James Buccellato, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Northern Arizona University, has a new theory that Hoffa was murdered at a home in Bloomfield Hills near where he disappeared on July 30, 1975....

Geneva Gomez was beaten, stabbed, and choked beyond recognition by her mom, Juanita Gomez. Juanita Gomez at trial. It was like a “horror film.” So said the prosecutor at the outset of the murder trial of Juanita Gomez that began earlier this week in Oklahoma City, according to The Oklahoman. In August 2016, police arrested Gomez for the murder of her 33-year-old daughter, Geneva, whose body had been found on the floor of her mother’s home....

A Canadian teenager used star charts and Google Earth satellite images to find what could be the ruins of a lost, ancient Mayan city. A satellite image (left) added weight to William Gadoury’s theory — developed using Google Earth images (right) — that he had found the platforms of lost Mayan pyramids. Images: William Gadoury/CSA/Google Using only a star chart and Google Earth, a Canadian teenager claims to have discovered the ruins of an ancient Mayan city in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula — and he might actually be right....

Linda Torello’s children grew suspicious when they found bags of feces on her grave and set up a camera to catch the culprit. Michael Andrew MurphyA hidden camera caught Dean Eichner peeing on his ex-wife’s grave in New York state. The first time Michael Andrew Murphy saw a bag of feces near his mother’s grave, he dismissed it as a dog walker’s. The second time, he grew suspicious. And after setting up a hidden camera, he discovered the revolting truth — that his mother’s ex-husband had been visiting her grave in the mornings and peeing on her tombstone....

“I will never give up on him. Because love is selfless, and I love him more than life itself.” A man in California has reportedly lost part of his skull — thanks to excessive consumption of energy drinks. In a post (now deleted) shared on the Facebook page for Endres Photography, located in Sacramento, California, a woman who chooses to be known only as Brianna explained how excessive energy drink consumption led to her husband’s nearly fatal brain hemorrhage....

From Grover Cleveland’s love child to John F. Kennedy’s affairs, these presidential sex scandals shocked America. The pomp and circumstance of the American presidency can often mask its dark underbelly. And when it comes to that underbelly, presidential sex scandals are almost as old as the nation itself. Sometimes, it takes the cold eye of history to understand a scandal in full — like Thomas Jefferson’s relationship with his slave, Sally Hemings....

Jonty Hurwitz Based in London, Jonty Hurwitz has become fairly well known for his mind-bending sculptures that only take true form once seen at a particular angle or in a mirror. For several pieces, he essentially creates what resembles a nondescript stretched out piece of metal or material covered in contours. Only upon being placed in front of a cylindrical mirror can the shapes be seen for the oddities that they really are, like a disembodied hand or frog....

A photographer captured images of more than 20 polar bears that have moved into the abandoned buildings of a former Arctic weather station on the Russian island of Kolyuchin. Dmitry KokhPhotographer Dmitry Kokh captured several images of the polar bears’ new home on Russia’s Kolyuchin Island. When Russian wildlife photographer Dmitry Kokh finally set sail in August 2021, his seafaring expedition had been two years in the making. He had a lifelong dream to capture polar bears in their natural habitat and traveled 1,200 miles to reach Wrangel Island, a UNESCO-protected sanctuary in the Russian Far East....