One of 5,200 wine labels from Maynard Amerine's collection

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Help Crowdsource the History of Wine

The University of California, Davis, is looking for online volunteers to help catalog and describe 5,200 wine labels

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Ancient Egyptian Stories Will Be Published in English for the First Time

Translated from hieroglyphics on monuments, tombs and papyri, the book will present tales few outside of academia have read

Publisher Set to Release Exact Replicas of the World’s Most Mysterious Manuscript

There will be 898 copies made of the coded Voynich Manuscript, which has stumped scholars for over a century

Images revealed by scanning the Codex Selden

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Scan Reveals Rare, 500-Year-Old Mesoamerican Manuscript

Hyperspectral imagery reveals hidden Mixtec paintings and glyphs on the 16-foot, deer-hide Codex Selden

From Slavery to Mass Incarceration will be a museum dedicated to the history of racial injustice in America, and will be located just steps from a site where slaves were auctioned off.

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Inside the Upcoming Memorial and Museum Dedicated to Lynching Victims

Spanning slavery to segregation to mass incarceration

The Dessen Bauhaus was home to ambitious movement that went far beyond blocky architecture.

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Harvard Just Launched a Fascinating Resource All About Bauhaus

The newly digitized collection is as ambitious as the art school it documents

Is it disrespectful to sell a literary great’s remains—or is the stunt worthy of Capote himself?

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Love Truman Capote? Buy His Ashes

Is the sale of Capote’s earthy remains a gauche publicity stunt or an act worthy of the audacious author?

This 2,000-year-old scroll is covered with mysterious words in Aramaic.

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A Guide to Ancient Magic

In antiquity, love or revenge was just a spell away

Vanderbilt University's newly renamed "Memorial Hall."

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Five Places Where Confederate Monuments Have Recently Disappeared (or Soon Will)

Vanderbilt University’s decision to rename a building to “Memorial Hall” is just one of many ongoing efforts

The Torrance County Prison in Estancia, New Mexico is operated by CCA, a private prison company. It will not be affected by the DOJ's new phaseout of private federal prisons.

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DOJ Will Say Goodbye to Private Federal Prisons

Private facilities for federal inmates will be phased out—but state use of the practice remains

The Olympics' highest honor is named for Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games

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This Olympic Medal Is Even Harder to Win Than the Gold

The International Olympic Committee values sportsmanship above all else

The sloop Washington, which sank in Lake Ontario in 1803

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Explorers Find Second Oldest Shipwreck in the Great Lakes

The merchant sloop Washington went down in a storm in 1803 on Lake Ontario

Photo taken at Auschwitz in 2013.

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Use the Phrase “Polish Death Camps” in Poland and You May Go to Jail

Soon, saying that Nazi death camps were Polish could earn you three years in prison

Federal Corrections Instiution, Ray Brook, is housed inside the former Olympic Village for the 1980 games in Lake Placid

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Why the 1980 Olympic Village Is Now a Prison

It’s one way to deal with leftover infrastructure

A reconstruction of Ötzi the Iceman at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology.

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DNA Analysis Reveals What Ötzi the Iceman Wore to His Grave

He rocked surprisingly complex fashion for the Copper Age

A German armored train

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Dig to Find Fabled Nazi Gold Train Begins

Explorers believe the Nazis stashed an armored train full of gold and weapons in tunnels in Poland’s Owl Mountains

One of the dig sites at Durrington Walls where researchers have uncovered a post that once held a large, prehistoric timber post.

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The So-Called “Superhenge” Was Made of Wood, Not Stone

New research shows that the ancient structure was also taken down in a hurry

Fire watchtower on the newly re-named Black Elk Peak

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Highest Peak in South Dakota Renamed for Oglala Lakota Medicine Man

A federal board has officially changed South Dakota’s Harney Peak to Black Elk Peak

The remains of a teenage boy found near an altar dedicated to Zeus at Mt. Lykaion

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Did the Ancient Greeks Engage in Human Sacrifice?

The remains uncovered at an altar to Zeus on Mount Lykaion may confirm legends about human sacrifice at the shrine

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Tourists in Hawaii Accidentally Discovered Ancient Petroglyphs

A stroke of luck on the beach

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