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

Cool Finds

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

Children salute the American flag in 1915.

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The Rules About How to Address the U.S. Flag Came About Because No One Wanted to Look Like a Nazi

During the National Anthem, Americans are asked to put their right hands over their hearts. But why?

An ancient stone tool used to butcher a rhinoceros.

New Research

Ancient Hominids Used These 250,000-Year-Old Tools for Butchery

Traces of blood on the prehistoric tools, suggest our ancestors had a much more varied diet than once thought

Excavations at Tell Yunatsite, Bulgaria

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World’s Oldest Gold Object May Have Just Been Unearthed in Bulgaria

A small gold bead shows that Copper Age people in the Balkans were processing gold 6,500 years ago

Berlin's Reichstag

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Germany Is Reworking the Commission That Handles Restitution for Nazi-Looted Art

A lackluster track record and controversial comments led to a shift

NASA put a man on the moon, but it's been tricky to hold onto the bags used to bring back lunar samples.

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NASA Accidentally Sold a Precious Apollo Artifact

A seemingly simple bag is at the center of multiple lawsuits

Irom Sharmila ended her 16-year-long fast with a lick of honey.

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Why India’s “Iron Lady” Went on a Hunger Strike for 16 Years

Irom Chanu Sharmila resisted a draconian law with her own body

Emperor Akihito in 2014

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What Is the Role of the Emperor in Modern Japan?

While the role is ceremonial, abdication could mean a political battle

Temple where the remains of a body and two important hieroglyphic slabs were discovered in Xunantunich

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Rare Maya Burial Temple Discovered in Belize

Excavations at Xunantunich have uncovered the remains of a body and hieroglyphics that tell the story of the snake-head dynasty

Image of Fleet Street taken in 2005

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Last Journalists Exit the Birthplace of Modern News

After 300 years, Fleet Street, the London thoroughfare home to dozens of newspapers and thousands of reporters, becomes a tourist stop

Winnie the Pooh has got new stitches, a fluffier butt and a renewed spot in the New York Public Library.

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Original Pooh Bear Gets Makeover, Returns to New York Public Library

Winnie and his friends are clean, fluffy and filled with stories

Excavations of a Dark Ages palace on the Tintagel Peninsula in Cornwall

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A Palace Was Unearthed Where Legend Places King Arthur’s Birthplace

Archaeologists at Tintagel uncover walls and artifacts from a Dark Ages complex likely used by local kings

The viewing pod slides up and down the tower, which has been acknowledged as world's most slender by Guinness World Records.

Cool Finds

New Observation Tower Is World’s Thinnest

Brighton’s West Pier comes back to life…as a crazy vertical viewing tower

The ancient carving after it was vandalized by well-intentioned youth.

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One of the Earliest Images of Skiing Was Destroyed by Youths Trying to “Improve It”

The petroglyph was made 5,000 years ago

A reconstruction from the 3,700-year-old remains of Ava, a woman unearthed in the Scottish Highlands

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Meet Ava, a Bronze Age Woman From the Scottish Highlands

A forensic artist has recreated the face of a woman alive 3,700 years ago

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Diaries of Holocaust Architect Heinrich Himmler Discovered in Russia

The man who designed the Nazi concentration camps switched easily between recording domestic life and mass murder

Ooh, shiny.

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The Government Just Won a Long Legal Battle Over Rare Coins

The enigmatic Double Eagles are anything but trinkets

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