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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Around 1533, the Ottoman sultan broke custom to marry his favorite concubine Hürrem Sultan — and she soon became the most powerful woman in the empire. She was known by many names: Hürrem Sultan, ...

Now, the resulting DNA-based reconstruction reveals the first-ever portrait of a Denisovan hominin. “I was expecting Denisovan traits to be similar to Neanderthals, just because Neanderthals are their ...

The first artifact of its kind ever unearthed in Poland, this five-inch fertility symbol known as the "Venus of Kołobrzeg" was carved from limestone that's flecked with the shells of mussels and ...

The man had seemingly died “painlessly,” and the electric chair thus seemed like a new, more humane method of execution. “The sentence of the court,” the judge told Kemmler, according to court ...