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Just before dawn on August 12, 1967, McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser got a call about a disturbance on a side road just outside of town.
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Though it was early, his wife Pauline decided to accompany him to investigate. As they drove through the small Tennessee town, a car pulled up alongside theirs.Suddenly, the occupants opened fire on the Pussers’ car, killing Pauline and wounding Pusser. Struck by two rounds on the left side of his…
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It’s staggering to think that nearly 97% of our history is lost.
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Modern humans, Homo sapiens, have roamed the Earth for around 200,000 years, but written records only date back about 6,000 years. That’s a whopping 194,000 years of human life undocumented and largely unknown. Ancient tools, scattered artifacts, and prehistoric cave paintings are some of the only clues to what life…
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This bronze socketed axe
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The bronze socketed axe complete with a charred wooden handle, dates back to 1000–800 BCE and was uncovered in 2016 at Must Farm in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire. Now housed at the Cambridge Archaeological Unit, the axe comes from Britain’s best-preserved Bronze Age site. The settlement, destroyed by a catastrophic fire, plunged…
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In December 1998, near the town of Lapedo, in Leiria, the skeleton of a 25,000-year-old child was discovered.
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A unique find because the bones also revealed that the boy was a hybrid, the son of a Neanderthal and a Homo Sapiens Sapiens. The excavation of the child’s skeleton, who was between four and five years old, continued throughout the winter and revealed a very well-preserved set, despite the…
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A family of eight Inuits frozen for centuries are the best-preserved mummies ever found in North America.
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were found in Greenland in 1972. It’s believed the mummification process was accidental, and resulted from the region’s ice-cold climate. The settlement of Qilakitsoq, on Greenland’s west coast, is 280 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Archaeologists think the family died there sometime around 1475 AD. Despite decades of study,…
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The skeletons of five people with elongated skulls have been dug up in the Russian-annexed region of Crimea, sparking rumours of an “alien” grave.
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The remains date from slightly less than 2000 years ago and are believed to be from the ancient Sarmatian culture.A mother was found buried with a baby lying on her chest, with three more skeletons found under them in the grave.All had distinctive deformed skulls, and previous similar discoveries have…
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From the excavation of Mycenae, the great enemy of Troy, in 1876.
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The Lion Gate has just been cleared. Bottom right of the photograph you see the excavator of Troy and Mycenae, Heinrich Schliemann with his seated Greek wife, Sophia Schliemann. Top right of the photo it’s Wilhelm Dörpfeld, Schliemann’s assistant, successor and Germany’s finest architect then. A few days later, excavating…
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An underwater photographer captured the exact moment when a female seahorse transfers her eggs to the male, who will incubate them until they hatch.
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Seahorses are monogamous and among the animals that show love for their partner in the most tender ways. At sunrise, they are so happy to see each other that they dance for over five minutes. With their tails intertwined, they greet each other with a “good morning,” changing their colors…
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“The blizzard at the end of November 1915
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alone accounted for nearly 16,000 admissions on account of frostbite and exposure, 12,000 of whom were from the Suvla front, 2,700 from Anzac, and 1,200 from Helles; in addition 280 were drowned or died of exposure.” Image: “Frost-bitten soldiers lying on straw in shelters constructed of biscuit boxes at a…
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Vojislav Lukačević with German officers.
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He was a Chetnik lieutenant colonel and collaborator of the occupiers in the Second World War. In the summer of 1941, he joined Draža Mihailović’s Chetnik movement. For the next three years, as the commander of the Chetnik forces, he led the fights against the partisan forces in Montenegro and…