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…
A local farmer discovered this stone half-submerged in an irrigation canal in Turkey. Inscriptions on the stone, dating back to the 8th century B.C. told the story of an ancient lost civilization in Turkey. Last winter, a local farmer in…
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…