Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called "the wickedest town in the West" because of its proliferation of bars, ...

The Mount Tambora eruption in April 1815 was the most powerful volcanic blast in recorded human history. The stratovolcano on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa had been dormant for centuries — and then ...

Dozens of military helmets from World War I and World War II were recently found just steps from the University of Wrocław Institute of Archaeology in Wrocław, Poland. As construction workers were ...

Before the Soviet Union, there was the Russian Empire, an autocratic regime that was ruled by tsars. By the early 20th century, though, support had decreased significantly for the last tsar, Nicholas ...

Established in 2010, All That's Interesting brings together a dedicated staff of digital publishing veterans and subject-level experts in history, true crime, and science. From the lesser-known byways ...

Katarzyna Zowada, a 23-year-old university student based in Kraków, Poland, mysteriously vanished on Nov. 12, 1998. She was supposed to attend an important therapy appointment that day, so her mother ...

During excavations at Magna, a 2,000-year-old Roman fort built near Hadrian’s Wall in England, archaeologists have uncovered numerous ancient treasures. In recent weeks, they’ve found pottery, a comb, ...

Though it’s now been authenticated as a work of Turner’s, the story surrounding the painting was much different only a year ago. Julian Gascoigne, a senior director at Sotheby’s, told The Guardian ...

Hadrian was married to Vibia Sabina, but he also had male lovers. This was not unusual in ancient Rome, where older men often had relationships with young men and teenage boys (including teens who ...

Archaeologists in Altenberge, Germany recently unearthed a piece of a 4,500-year-old flint blade as well as residue from arrowhead production that could be as much as 5,000 years older than that.

Sumer is one of history’s oldest civilizations. Long before the Egyptians built the pyramids, the Sumerians flourished in Mesopotamia. Between 4,500 and 1,900 B.C.E.. they invented one of the earliest ...

The path a deadly tornado made through Daniel Boone National Forest in Kentucky can be clearly seen in new satellite imagery released by NASA. The twister, which struck the state on May 16, 2025, left ...