Erik Thorvaldsson, famously known as Erik the Red, is recorded in medieval and Icelandic sagas as the pioneer of the fist European colony in Greenland.
One of the Kashmir giants was 7’9” tall (2.36 m) while the “shorter” one was a mere 7’4” tall (2.23 m) and according to various sources they were indeed twin brothers.
An excavation in an eight-foot-deep pit yielded two ancient coffins and a collection of funerary vases.
Historically, horse bodies in viking-age burials have been interpreted as symbolic of the journey to the afterlife, part of the possessions of the deceased in the afterlife, or as status symbols. But these interpretations miss something vital – the bond between horse and rider.
The clothing worn by Huldremose Woman was originally died blue and red, a sign of wealth, and a ridge in one of her fingers indicated it once bore a gold ring.
On September 9, 1921, tragedy struck when the silent film actress Virginia Rappe passed away under mysterious circumstances.
The fossil comes from a strata that dates back 310 to 315 million years and marks the first Palaeozoic spider ever found in Germany.
The blue whale may no longer be the heaviest animal to ever inhabit Earth; there is now another contender.
Jennifer Pan, Toronto's murderous 'golden' daughter brutally killed her parents, but why?
In the 19th century, an archaeological excavation in Switzerland uncovered a Bronze Age arrowhead composed of an unexpected material.