She wrote the world’s first computer program — in 1837. She discovered ancient sea monsters buried in her backyard. She cancelled the chemical tearing our ozone layer apart. You might not know their names or faces, but these pioneering women…
Even after his death, the government took great care to hide the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask. His clothes were promptly burned at dawn and his cell was immediately scraped and whitewashed. Wikimedia CommonsAn illustration of the Man…
Archaeologists have discovered a 14th-century cesspit that underwent an extreme makeover over the centuries, transforming from a receptacle for human excrement into a fashionable cellar with a latrine. Since discovering the cesspool in London at the end of 2019, archaeologists…
These 99 million-year-old discoveries represent “the only known dinosaur age cave survivors.” Lenka Podstrelená, Sendi et al. Gondwana Res 2020 (Copyright Elsevier 2020)The two species likely descended from a common ancestor, before the supercontinent of Gondwana drifted apart. An international…
Archaeologists have surveyed the Mayan road with airborne lidar technology to reveal the ancient structures along its length. A ruthless Maya warrior queen may have ordered the building of an elaborate road more than 1,000 years ago to invade a…
The remains of the RMS Titanic are rapidly corroding at the bottom of the North Atlantic. But a proposal to cut the ship’s telegraph machine from the wreck has drawn fierce criticism. A wireless telegraph machine, sometimes called the “voice of the Titanic” for its role…
Archaeologists digitally reconstructed the leopard image from fragments of a sarcophagus cover. Excavation of an ancient city of the dead in Aswan, Egypt, recently uncovered pieces of a sarcophagus lid that had been decorated with the colorful face of a…
One of the ancient cockroaches is pictured preserved in its amber grave. A pair of 99-million-year-old cockroaches are rewriting the early history of the underworld. The ancient roaches, found preserved in amber in Myanmar, are the oldest-known examples of “troglomorphic”…
February 29 only comes around once every 4 years in the Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used by most of the world. Also called the “Christian calendar” or “Western calendar,” it is internationally accepted as a civil…
“Given recent national events, it is all the more important to learn from the mistakes of the past and to ensure that such an assault on freedom will never again happen to any community in the United States.”California Officially Apologizes…
This 15th-century courtesy book, entitled “The Lytille Childrenes Lytil Boke,” taught kids table manners and other rules, such as “don’t pick your nose.” A 15th-century book on manners, newly digitized by The British Library, is filled with rules that wouldn’t…
The temple at Lachish is the first ancient Canaanite temple found in more than 50 years and is extraordinarily well preserved, say archaeologists. A 3,000-year-old temple, built by the Canaanites around the time of the ancient Israelite invasion, has been…