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A Cleaner Broke The Beard Off Tutankhamen's Mask And Stuck It Back On With...
The 3,300-year-old burial mask of Tutankhamen was reportedly broken by a cleaner who then stuck it back together with cheap superglue.The mask was discovered in 1922 by British archaeologists Howard...
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Oldest Gospel Ever Found Was Used As Part Of A Mummy's Mask In 90AD
A text that may be the oldest copy of a gospel known to exist — a fragment of the Gospel of Mark that was written during the first century, before the year 90 — is set to be published.At present, the...
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Abraham Lincoln Memorabilia Collection Up For Auction In Texas
DALLAS (Reuters) - A collection of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia, including a lock of the 16th U.S president's hair, will be up for auction in Dallas on Saturday, months before the United States marks...
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Here's How To Get A Copy Of Every Tweet You've Ever Posted (TWTR)
Twitter only lets you see a portion of your tweet history, but there's an easy way to get a copy of everything.You can request to download your Twitter archive, which contains a searchable collection...
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A Bletchley Park Codebreaker Who Kept Silent For 30 Years Recalls The Moment...
Between 1939 and 1945, more than 10,000 people worked in Bletchley Park, the headquarters of the UK Government Code and Cypher School, tasked with breaking Nazi codes during War World II.According to...
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The World’s Oldest Full Deck Of Playing Cards Was Almost Lost To History
In 1983, The Metropolitan Museum of Art bought a 52-card deck of South Netherlandish playing cards.The cards dated from the 15th century and were in incredible condition — but they were almost lost to...
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5 Unlikely Lessons We Can Learn From Historic Leaders
It can be hard for us to see sometimes how history relates to our own lives.There don’t seem to be many similarities between the world today and the world that we read about in our history books.Our...
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This Marine Was The ‘American Sniper’ Of The Vietnam War
Long before Chris Kyle penned "American Sniper," Carlos Hathcock was already a legend.He taught himself to shoot as a boy, as did Alvin York and Audie Murphy before him. He had dreamed of being a US...
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The World's Oldest Known Snake Fossils Have Just Been Discovered
The oldest known snake fossils, dating from 143 million to 167 million years ago, have been uncovered.Researchers, writing in the journal Nature Communications, say the fossils push back the first...
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Beautiful Photos Of The World's Oldest And Most Majestic Trees
Throughout history, trees have withstood the test of time, quite literally. People are born and people die, civilizations rise and fall, but many trees, trees that you see every day, stay where they...
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Here's What Baghdad Looked Like Immediately After The British Conquered It...
In 1917, after centuries Ottoman rule, the British marched into Baghdad and conquered the city.This allied victory over one World War I's Central powers was hailed in a letter by Captain L. W. Jardine...
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Ancient medical supplies found on the ship of the famous pirate Blackbeard
Archaeologists are excavating the vessel that served as the flagship of the pirate Blackbeard, and the medical equipment they have recovered from the shipwreck suggests the notorious buccaneer had to...
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8 books Neil deGrasse Tyson says every intelligent person should read
Want to know why we use fossil fuels to power our buildings and cars? How the US came to be the "leader of the free world"? How we transitioned from floating single-celled organisms to walking, talking...
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The income tax started as a conservative political stunt
The US officially adopted the federal income tax 102 years ago today.The Supreme Court hadruled in 1895 that the income tax violated Article I of the Constitution, so the amendment was necessary to...
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Here are the core lessons from a book that Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates...
In today's post-9/11 world, the threat of terrorism looms large for many people.These fears are fueled by a 24-hour news cycle that sheds light on horrors throughout the world, despite that violence...
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An illustrated guide to the complete history of sushi
You know dining habits have shifted dramatically when Iowa City’s Sushi Kicchin boasts a four-and-a-half star Yelp review. From pinwheel-shaped rainbow rolls to minimalist slices of toro pressed gently...
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Here's the surprising 500-year history of the American dollar
The dollar in your pocket has a hidden history. Behind President Washington's steady gaze lies an inheritance of struggle, exploration, and wealth — touching on four continents and five centuries. It...
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26 photos of Hong Kong's chaotic Kowloon Walled City, once the most crowded...
In a northern section of Hong Kong there once stood one of the most densely populated places on earth.From the 1950s until 1994, over 33,000 people lived and worked in Kowloon Walled City, a massive...
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The terrifying origin story of Valentine's Day
While not thought to be directly related to modern Valentine’s Day traditions, the beginnings of celebrating love (of a sort) in February date back to the Romans.The feast of Lupercalia was a pagan...
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Legendary photographers posing with their most iconic images
Since 2006, photographer Tim Mantoani has captured more than 150 photographers and the iconic images that made them famous in a single shot for his "Behind Photographs" series."It was important to step...
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