All That's Interesting

Ancient historians like Livy and Plutarch wrote of bizarre phenomena in the skies above Italy, from strange discs and phantom ships to metallic rain.

Roman ruins dating as far back as the first century C.E. were discovered during excavations in preparation for museum construction in Cologne.

At the lakeshore site of Gantangqing, researchers found 35 wooden tools, the oldest ever discovered in East Asia.

Archaeologists have recovered 22 massive stone blocks, once part of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, from the Mediterranean seafloor near Egypt.

Archaeologists excavating a tomb in Pompeii's Porta Sarno necropolis found a relief carving featuring two statues, a man and woman standing side by side.

Clergyman Sylvester Graham invented graham crackers in 1829 because he believed that bland foods like these would help repress Americans' sexual desires.

The iron maiden was a European device resembling a tall cabinet and may have enclosed and impaled humans with its interior spikes.

From declarations of love and remembrances of old friends to hilarious insults directed at locals, the Pompeii graffiti preserved since 79 A.D. is a raunchy sight.

James Jameson was a Scottish naturalist with a dark side.

"Most of them were facing the same direction like they were walking towards something."