The Mount St. Helens eruption of May 18, 1980, was the most catastrophic eruption in the history of the United States. These photos and video show us why.

Ancient Celts celebrated the cross-quarter day of Lughnasadh around August 1 with large gatherings, games, feasts, and Pagan rites and sacrifices.

New research and satellite imagery may have found the location of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in the ancient Assyrian city of Ninevah.

Science is now beginning to tell us who and why hundreds of Roopkund Lake skeletons lay scattered in the Himalayas.

Found in the woods of Hamelin, Peter the Wild Boy couldn’t speak. King George I brought him to Kensington Palace and arranged for Peter’s lifelong care.

Before WWII, did Italy, with the blessing of the Vatican, attempt to locate and remove the Ark of the Covenant from St. Mary’s Church in Axum, Ethiopia?

The Heibai Wuchang of Chinese mythology escort spirits of the dead to hell, give wealth to the good, and punish the wicked.

The Samnites built up Pietrabbondante with temples, a theater, and cult structures. After the Romans conquered them, they abandoned the sanctuary for good.