When Nick and Bobbi Ercoline traveled to Woodstock in 1969, they had no idea they were about to become one of the most famous couples of the hippie generation. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty ImagesBobbi and Nick Ercoline are the couple…
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal. This photo documents the second U.S. flag to be planted atop Mount Suribachi on Feb. 23, 1945, during the Battle of Iwo Jima. The photo quickly became famous worldwide and to…
This 1905 photo shows a whaling ship surrounded by several dead whales in Spitsbergen, Norway. In the mid-1800s, a seaman named Charles Nordhoff found himself on the deck of a ship, coated head to toe in the fat of a…
A 3D laser scan image showing the location of the tomb (in yellow) buried beneath the steps to the Curia Julia, or Senate House, in the Roman Forum. A tomb that was buried thousands of years ago and revered by…
This individual had a number of grave goods. It appears that the red pigment ochre covered part of the grave when the deceased was laid to rest. Archaeologists have discovered 83 graves from ancient Egypt, but the human remains weren’t…
The cave of Els Trocs in the Spanish Pyrenees, indicated here by an arrow, was the scene of a brutal massacre about 7,300 years ago. The bones of nine Neolithic people found in a cave in northern Spain suggest they…
The Soviet spy radio was found buried beside a path through a former forest near the German city of Cologne, a few miles from a nuclear research center and a military airbase. Archaeologists digging for the remains of a Roman…
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal. The Battle of Iwo Jima took place in 1945 during the final months of World War II. To this day, it is considered one of the most iconic clashes of the…
A close-up shows part of the mass grave at Thornton, where the deceased were carefully positioned and placed in an organized manner without any overlapping. Archaeologists in England recently uncovered new details about a medieval mass burial of victims of…
The reason for the female orgasm has long eluded scientists. Men need them for reproduction; women don’t. So why do female orgasms exist? Scientists studying this issue are divided, said David Puts, a biological anthropologist at Penn State University. Some…
In the New Kingdom, the fate of the deceased in the afterlife was reportedly affected by success in playing senet with underworld opponents. Here, a game board for senet, though not the board from the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum in California.…
From its anti-immigrant origins to the Nazi-esque salute children used to make while saying it, this is the dark history behind the Pledge of Allegiance that you didn’t learn in school. Library of Congress Students pledging allegiance to the flag…