Known as the "Rotenburg Cannibal," Armin Meiwes killed and ate a willing victim named Bernd Brandes in 2001 before storing the leftovers for 20 months in a hidden freezer.Armin Meiwes spent much of his youth devouring German fairy tales. He was particularly fond of Hansel and Gretel and its evil witch who abducted two children to fatten them up for slaughter. With a lifelong urge to eat somebody himself, Meiwes found a willing participant online who agreed to have his penis cut off and eaten.

The funeral pyre in Salorno—Dos de la Forca in the Italian Alps is the first of its kind ever discovered and was found to contain the remains of eight generations of families.PLOS ONEThe Late Bronze Age funeral pyre was left untouched for 3,000 years. Salorno—Dos de la Forca has captivated historians for decades. The 3,000-year-old site was first discovered and identified as a funeral pyre in 1986. But only now have bioanthropologists completed excavations and offered detailed analyses of its charred contents — and learned they were the cremated remains of up to 172 people.

The ship likely sank between 1400 and 1300 B.C.E., and it's providing new insight into how ancient mariners traveled.Israel Antiquities Authority/FacebookCameras on a remotely operated vehicle captured these images of a large pile of clay jars a mile below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea. Last summer, an oil and gas company conducting a survey in the Mediterranean Sea stumbled upon a remarkable discovery: the 3,300-year-old remains of a Bronze Age ship carrying dozens of clay jars.

These images have given researchers new insights into the previously unknown civilization, but have also raised many questions.BBC MarathiSome of the rock carvings found in Maharashtra. A new discovery in western India has stunned archaeologists and hinted at the existence of a previously unknown ancient civilization. According to the BBC, a pair of explorers found thousands of rock carvings (known as petroglyphs) in the Konkan region of western Maharashtra. The images, which date back to 10,000 B.

Researchers hypothesized that the man was likely struck by an ax — and other weapons — during the 1361 Battle of Visby.Cícero MoraesResearchers found that the man had been hit across the face with a weapon, likely an ax. In 1361, some 2,000 Swedish peasants faced off against 2,500 Danish soldiers in the Battle of Visby. Around 1,800 of the peasants were massacred and a recent study of their remains has revealed that one soldier seemingly perished in an especially gruesome fashion.

See the outrageous footage from November 12, 1970, when the town of Florence, Oregon tried to dispose of a beached whale carcass by blowing it up. KATU/YouTubeReporter Paul Linnman stands in front of the carcass that’s about to be detonated in Oregon’s infamous exploding whale incident of 1970. On November 12, 1970, residents of the small town of Florence, Oregon witnessed a rare sight as an exploding whale sent chunks of meat and blubber soaring 100 feet into the sky.

Weighing in at more than 6,000 pounds and 11 feet long, this giant sunfish found near the Azores is the largest bony fish ever caught.Atlantic Naturalist AssociationThe biggest fish ever caught, this sunfish smashes the previously held record by almost 1,000 pounds. Researchers in Portugal have made a monster discovery. While at work off the coast of the Azores, they reeled in a mammoth sunfish which, at over 6,000 pounds, is the biggest fish ever caught.

Infamous English monarch Henry VIII drew doodles highlighting dark and depressive passages in his prayer book, leading scholars to believe he struggled with anxiety and religious guilt in the years leading up to his death. Public DomainPortrait of Henry VIII of England by Hans Holbein the Younger c. 1540. Best known for marrying six times, beheading some of those wives, and breaking England away from the Catholic Church during his reign in the 16th century, Henry VIII of England is generally viewed as an egotistical and tyrannical ruler.

Before Chadwick Boseman's death was announced on Aug. 28, 2020, only a handful of people knew that the Black Panther star had been quietly battling colon cancer for years.Gareth Cattermole/Getty ImagesIn August 2020, Chadwick Boseman died of colon cancer at just 43 years old. The unexpected news of Chadwick Boseman’s death in 2020 was met with shock and disbelief that was only compounded by Boseman’s cause of death: colon cancer that seemingly no one even knew he had.

Jacques Piccard stood behind his work, so much so that he took a seven-mile dive into the ocean in it. Wikimedia Commons Jacques Piccard was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1922 and studied at the University of Geneva. His father Auguste Piccard was an engineer and inventor whose early work focused primarily on helium balloon flights. Auguste twice held the record for the highest altitude ever reached by a man in a hot air balloon.