An assortment of weathered Lego bricks pulled from the ocean. The ocean around the U.K. is strewn with Lego bricks. Some of them were flushed there; one U.K. insurance company estimates that children flushed some 2.5 million Lego pieces down…
An influenza ward at a U.S. Army Camp Hospital in France during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. Throughout the course of history, disease outbreaks have ravaged humanity, sometimes changing the course of history and, at times, signaling the end…
The Statue of Liberty is famous for her torch-bearing arm, but newly discovered blueprints reveal that this arm was revised to be more slender at the last minute, changing the plans of the French engineer Gustave Eiffel who helped design…
Known as the Nazareth Inscription and the Nazareth Decree, this carved marble slab preserves an edict issued by a Roman emperor identified as “Caesar.” A stern warning carved in Greek on an ancient marble slab declared that a Roman emperor…
Different sides of a prehistoric stone crafted ball found at Qesem Cave in Israel. For nearly 2 million years, ancient humans crafted stones into hand-size balls, but archaeologists were unsure why. Now they know: Ancient people used them as tools…
In 2017, Shreya Siddanagowder underwent Asia’s first intergender hand transplant. A young woman in India who lost both of her hands in a bus accident received limbs from a darker-skinned male donor. Years later, the skin of her transplanted hands…