New research suggests that some victims of the plague were buried face down to stop them rising from the dead.
The terrifying scenario became a reality for one young woman who recently 'died' at her home in Detroit.
New research has determined that scroll fragments thought to be blank do in fact contain very faint text.
In direct contrast to their depiction in the Jurassic Park movies, velociraptors were not actually pack hunters.
Those looking to travel totally beyond the reach of the deadly pandemic may have to venture very far indeed.
16 Dead Sea Scroll fragments on display at the Museum of the Bible in Washington have been exposed as fakes.
A Ukrainian woman who was pronounced dead in her home shocked doctors when she woke up 10 hours later.
An ancient Egyptian board game may have evolved into a conduit through which to contact the other side.
The voice of an ancient Egyptian man who died 3,000 years ago has been recreated for the first time.
Authorities are investigating what might have caused an entire flock of starlings to suddenly drop dead.
A new report has predicted the technologies that soldiers of the future will be equipped with on the battlefield.
A large lizard was recently caught on camera emerging from the water with a rather unusual piece of headwear.
A Russian man could go to prison for five years for using a pet cat to attack a police officer.
When Francis Smith pulled the trigger on a ghost in 1804, it sparked one of the UK's strangest court cases.
Keen to meet its 2024 deadline for returning to the Moon, NASA has unveiled its first new spacesuits in 40 years.
An unassuming yet potentially deadly type of algae has appeared in large quantities along the coast of France.
A new study has revealed that one of the scrolls was prepared using salts not native to the Dead Sea region.
A woman who had been shopping in New York recently returned to her truck to find a dead body in the back.
A man in North Carolina has become the latest victim of a rare, yet highly deadly type of waterborne microbe.
A man in India who was thought to have died following an accident turned out to be very much alive.