Smithsonian Magazine offers up a few other ancient creatures that could fit the bill, including Nile crocodiles, goannas, and ...
"Given the octopus' remarkable intelligence, adaptability, and diverse range of survival strategies, it wouldn't be the most ...
Over the past 2,000 years, Biblical scholars have pored over questions about Jesus Christ. What did the Christian Messiah look like? How tall was he? What do we know about his race? When and where was ...
Curved, with a double-edged blade, the shotel was one of the most impressive swords in the history of the world. Popular in the ancient kingdom of Dʿmt — present-day Eritrea and northern Ethiopia — it ...
In the waters off Türkiye’s western coast, researchers have uncovered a 1,500-year-old shipwreck brimming with thousands of artifacts. The discovery, part of the Blue Heritage Underwater Research ...
As a self-described protégé of legendary film director Francis Ford Coppola, Victor Salva has long been one of the most controversial directors in Hollywood. His debut feature film, Clownhouse, ...
When the Five Families were first recognized, what’s now the Bonanno family was known as the Maranzano family. After Salvatore Maranzano was murdered in 1931, Lucky Luciano awarded leadership of ...
Hidden for 1,800 years, a tiny silver amulet buried in a Roman grave near Frankfurt, Germany, has now revealed the earliest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps. In 2018, archaeologists ...
The origins of the Gambino crime family are not all that different from those of the Genoveses. In fact, it was Giuseppe Morello’s ally Ignazio Lupo, also known as “Lupo the Wolf,” who started the ...
Jordan Belfort, best known as the Wolf of Wall Street, is famous for a few things: defrauding investors out of millions, crashing a car while high on Quaaludes, and his tumultuous relationships. Today ...