Nick Schenk Jr

Quarter of a Million Abandoned Graves

Home to over 200,000 marked graves, it also includes mass graves for the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto. The Jewish…

3 months ago

Chernobyl’s Vehicle Graveyard

When one thinks of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident in Ukraine the first thing that comes to mind…

2 years ago

Battlefield Relic, The Only Witness Left Standing to the Battle of Culloden

Standing on the battlefield like a timeless sentinel, Old Leanach cottage looks over the battlefield where, in 1745, the Jacobite…

2 years ago

Roman Stadium Buried for 2000 Years

Roman discoveries are always fascinating no matter what part of history you study or follow. As for archaeologists, they all…

2 years ago

Woman Who’s Marrying a 300 Year Old Ghost Upset by Rejection

Ghost Groom: Maybe it's because he doesn't leave dirty socks on the bedroom floor. Or maybe it's because her grocery…

2 years ago

Oldest Road in the World? It is Giza Road

Giza Road: The ancient Egyptians created many wondrous things, not least of which were the pyramids. Even today archaeologists and…

2 years ago

Heavily Decorated Viking Sword X-Rayed

Viking Sword: In March of 2015 a landowner in Orkney, in the Northern Isles of Scotland, found a grave in…

2 years ago

Ajanta Caves Abandoned & Found 1500 Years Later by an Englishman

Ajanta Caves: In the hills of Northwest India about sixty six miles from Aurangabad and thirty seven miles from Jalgaon…

2 years ago

Deemed Russia’s Beauties of Tsarist Times

Russian translator and history buff Olga Shirnina uses her historical knowledge to colorize old photos from the past. Photos from…

2 years ago

Sheila the Elephant Survived WW2 by Being Taken Home by Her Keeper

Sheila the Elephant. Plenty of animals have been made famous in the movies. Rin Tin Tin, a German Shepard who…

2 years ago