# Pompeii
16 Historic Sites That Used to Be Packed – Now Deserted by Tourists
Once bustling with visitors, many historic sites across the globe now stand eerily quiet, their grandeur faded and their corridors echoing with memories rather than crowds. Changing travel trends, political instability, and…
Archaeological Finds That Rewrote Our Understanding of History
Archaeological finds and discoveries occur all the time all over the world. Dramatic archaeological finds that shape or alter our…
Haunting Dark Tourism Destinations for Dark History Lovers
Dark tourism seems like the preferred vacation for Wednesday Addams or legions of goth kids exploring their disturbed, grotesque side. This…
20th Century’s Deadliest Disasters
Tragic disasters are, sadly, all too common in history. Like bolts of lightning out of the clear blue, they strike…
Unusual Historic Crises and Calamities
Looking at history, one can’t help but wonder whether the world has it in for mankind. From devastating plagues and…
The Town That Got Away With Murder and Other Largely Forgotten Historic Events
In 1981, the people of tiny Skidmore, Missouri (pop. 441 then, about 280 now) got together to figure out what…
20 Archaeological Finds That Rewrote History
For the bulk of history, knowledge of significant past events had a distressing tendency to blend into the mists of…
10 People from Pompeii and Herculaneum Whose Lives Can Be Revived
When the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, the towns became inadvertent time capsules for the…
Infant Dump Site from Roman Britain Raises More Questions Than Answers
A field in Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, located in southeast England hides something considered extremely heinous to us today but completely normal…
What You Don’t Know About Poisoning Really Bringing Down the Roman Empire
In 1983, Canadian Research scientist Jerome Nriagu theorized that lead poisoning led to the decline and fall of the Roman…