History

When we hear the name Achilles, we think of a great Greek hero from mythology who fought in the Trojan War. Achilles was known for his strength and bravery on the battlefield. He was also known for his tragic flaw, which led to his downfall. When we turn the...

Over a thousand "mustatils," ancient rock formations in Saudi Arabia, are now the earliest ritual landscape structures ever identified. Researchers date them around 7,000 years old. Thus, they may be over 2,000 years older than Stonehenge or the oldest Egyptian pyramids. Three years ago, the researchers announced discovering 400...

Today, the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) culture teaches kids from birth about the Sky Woman, Mother Earth, and Grandmother Moon. The tribes instill a deep abiding respect for women who continue to uphold the Tree of Peace.  What's seldom taught in American classrooms is how the Iroquois Constitution, the Great Law of...

Chicago is home to a 3000-pound red granite boulder with a strange face carved on it. It's called the Waubonsie Stone, (also spelled Waubansee) "probably the first so-called statue" in Chicago's history, according to the Chicago Tribune in 1976. Once, the huge stone sat at the river's mouth near Fort Dearborn, constructed in 1804....

The East Bay Mystery Walls stretch for 50 miles along the California landscape. Today, it remains unknown who created the structures.  Rather than drawing attention from archaeologists, they seem to have ignored the structures. Like other early sites in America, they seem to point to the possibility that there's much more...

Scientists have found new important clues about the first domesticated wolves and dogs. A small cave in Germany contained numerous ancient canine fossils. They could point to a possible origin of all modern dogs. However, researchers stress this remains open to debate and further evidence. Dogs are considered the oldest domesticated animal in human...

Russia's Dyatlov Pass Incident is one of the creepiest, most mysterious true stories ever told. In January 1959, during the height of the Cold War, nine young Urals Polytechnic Institute students in their 20s and 30s went hiking in the Ural Mountains. All were experienced hikers and skiers, but none were prepared...

Petroglyphs found in Georgia show a possible connection between some of the earliest archaeological sites in the United States and Bronze Age Europe. Symbols found etched into stone are remarkably similar. At one ancient site in Savannah, Georgia, some also point to possible connections with the Mesoamericans. Nevertheless, today, those...

Are legends of mermaids and mermen based on something real? If so, stories dating back to the first writings are nothing like the Little Mermaid.  Sinde 1988, more than 16,000 people have vanished in a triangular area, the "Bermuda Triangle of Alaska." The missing person rate is twice the national average, with...

Every year at the New Year, fearsome monstrous mountain demons called Namahage visit children in Japan's Akita Prefecture on the Oga Peninsula. There, at the northern tip of Japan's main island of Honshu, people continue the ancient customs. Although the tradition nearly died out, it has seen a rise in...