For the first time in four decades, the public will be able to enter the top levels of Rome’s amphitheater
Take a tour through the Bezalel Narkiss Index of Jewish Art, which contains more than 260,000 entries from 41 countries
There are an estimated 8.7 million species on Earth–it's unlikely scientists will ever sequence them all
The phony travelogue describes a trip from his home in Illinois across the Atlantic to Ireland and Scotland
Frank Pantridge miniaturized the defibrillator, making it portable
Palmyra's Lion of Al-lāt, as the statue is known, once adorned the temple of a pre-Islamic goddess
By an author who wasn't even alive when it occurred
Rock Hudson died of AIDS-related complications in 1985
Le Corbusier's ideas arguably helped shape the city more than his own designs
It probably wasn't written by angry, sex-deprived wives–although stranger things have happened
On the plus side, at UC Berkeley you get free parking
Adjusting for inflation, Bill Gates’ $30.8 million purchase of Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester in 1994 remains the most expensive manuscript sale
Seven people lost their lives after taking poisoned Tylenol. The tragedy led to important safety reforms
The latest round of "GIF It Up" seeks the best GIFs made from public domain prints, photos, paintings and more
The style icon created a... well.... style icon in 1926
The port city of Mocha, in Yemen, was once a vast coffee marketplace
Thomas Crapper's actual innovation was entirely tangential to the flush toilet
It's the straw that bends, not the person
Archaeologists in Boston hope the outhouse will reveal the diet and detritus of the families that lived on the site
Anatomy theaters were an early site for science as spectacle
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