Graysmith was working at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969 when the Zodiac Killer sent an encoded letter to the newspaper.

On April 11, 1986, the FBI tracked two serial bank robbers down to a Miami side street. But when they tried to apprehend the ...

Archaeologists working in Vergina, Greece have uncovered new artifacts inside Royal Tomb II, long linked to the family of Alexander the Great. The tomb was initially thought to belong to Philip II, ...

While investigating a Stone Age settlement just outside of Varberg, Sweden, archaeologists serendipitously discovered a massive Viking-Age burial ground rife with artifacts. So far, just six percent ...

Samhain, a word meaning “Summer’s End,” is a Celtic holiday marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of the Celtic New Year on November 1. Originally celebrated among ancient Celts in ...

Archaeologists in Chifeng, China, have excavated an ancient tomb belonging to the Neolithic Hongshan culture that dates back 5,000 years. The Hongshan people, known for their impressive jade and clay ...

Beneath a mysterious, hand-carved structure built into the desert canyon walls in Petra, Jordan, archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old tomb containing 12 skeletons. The structure, known as ...

Anyone who has seen a happy cat has seen it knead: stretch out, purr, and gently massage the closest object (or person) with its paws. Now, archaeologists in Jerusalem have discovered the earliest ...

Throughout the late-1980s, police were baffled by four brutal murders that had taken place in Florida and Texas between 1986 and 1987. Then, in 1990, the husband of Oscar Ray Bolin’s ex-wife called in ...

On the snowy peaks of Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth, the dark object in the snow stood out. It was not trash, a piece of equipment, or a protruding stone. It was a boot with a sock ...

Since the 1950s, some scholars have hypothesized a dual ancestry model to explain how the population of Japan first took shape thousands of years ago. This model posits that the native Jomon people ...