Archaeologists Just Unearthed What May Be Europe's Largest Mass Grave, Inside The Shadow History Of The Pinkerton Agency, And More

Explore the most popular stories from History Uncovered this week. [History Uncovered]( [Archaeologists Just Unearthed More Than 1,000 Plague Victims In What May Be Europe's Largest Mass Grave Ever Found]( [Archaeologists stumbled upon eight pits filled with more than 1,000 skeletons while performing a routine survey ahead of construction in Nuremberg — and now they believe it may be the largest mass grave ever uncovered in Europe.]( [Meet The Real-Life Goodfellas Whose True Stories Were Too Wild For The Movie To Portray]( [In "Goodfellas," mobster Tommy DeSimone shoots at a bartender's feet while telling him to "dance." This scene played out just like that in real life, and a few weeks later, when the same bartender told DeSimone to "f*ck himself," DeSimone fatally shot him in the chest.]( [Archaeologists In Egypt Just Unearthed The Long-Lost Top Half Of A Massive Ramses II Statue]( [The recently unearthed portion of the statue stands over 12 feet tall. When put back together with its lower half, it is expected to be roughly 23 feet tall.]( [The Controversial History Of The Pinkerton Detective Agency, America's Original Private Eyes]( [Before the existence of the Secret Service and the FBI, the Pinkerton Detective Agency was America’s premier security and intelligence organization — until its reputation for violence and strikebreaking caused it to lose favor with the public.]( [A City Lost For Centuries Has Been Uncovered By Archaeologists in Rural Kansas]( [The ancient city of Etzanoa was believed to have been around from 1450 to 1700 and housed tens of thousands of people.]( [How Were The Pyramids Built? The Truth Behind One Of Ancient History's Greatest Mysteries]( [The Greek historian Herodotus wrote that it took 100,000 men 20 years to construct the Great Pyramid of Giza — but how exactly did they do it?]( [A Construction Worker In England Just Happened Upon An 1,800-Year-Old Statue Head From Ancient Rome]( [Construction worker Greg Crawley was operating a mechanical digger when he came upon a large stone — one that turned out to be the head of an ancient Roman statue.]( [Inside The Fascinating History Of El Castillo, The Largest Pyramid In Chichén Itzá]( [The Maya built El Castillo in Chichén Itzá to honor the feathered serpent deity Kukulcan and to serve as a physical representation of their calendar.]( [Experts Have Been Trying To Decode The Voynich Manuscript For Centuries — But Nobody Can Figure It Out]( [Since it was rediscovered in 1912, scholars have been trying to decode the unknown script and bizarre illustrations inside the 15th-century Voynich Manuscript — but to this day, nobody knows exactly what the book is about.]( [This 1950s Starlet Stormed Hollywood — Then Gave It Up To Become A Nun]( [She gave up fame at just 24 to live a monastic life, renouncing all earthly pleasures and chanting in Latin eight times a day.]( [Big Hits, Big Hair, Big Personality: 44 Pictures Of Country Music Legend Dolly Parton]( [Parton wrote two of her biggest hits, "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You" on the same day.]( [A Medieval Pilgrim's Badge Depicting A Basilisk Was Just Discovered In Poland]( [The badge is made from a lead and tin alloy and dates to the Middle Ages.]( [Inside The Audacious Crimes Of Dick Turpin, The 18th-Century English Highwayman Whose Life Became Legend]( [Robber and highwayman Dick Turpin was executed for his crimes in York on April 7, 1739 — but he's lived on ever since as a romanticized English folk hero.]( [Listen To The History Uncovered Podcast]( [In the 1920s, the hills of northeast Oklahoma were soaked in oil — and blood. Though the oil deposits found in the area had made the Osage Native Americans who owned the land rich, tribe members soon began to die at an alarming rate. This is the true story of the Osage Indian Murders and Killers of the Flower Moon.]( [Become An All That's Interesting Member]( [For just $4.99 a month, you'll enjoy all our content without ads, receive a quarterly letter from the editor, and get exclusive access to premium podcast episodes.]( [Unsubscribe]( [Web Version]( [History Uncovered On Instagram]( [History Uncovered On Facebook](