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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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New Observation Tower Is World’s Thinnest
Brighton’s West Pier comes back to life…as a crazy vertical viewing tower
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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
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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
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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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Taiwan’s President Issues First Formal Apology to Nation’s Indigenous Peoples
Tsai Ing-wen is also setting up new programs and implementing laws to guarantee basic rights for native inhabitants
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This Ball of Thread Is 3,000 Years Old
If it is simply held in the wrong way, the priceless artifact could crumble to pieces
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Peru Cracks Down on Illegal Gold Miners
A boom in outlaw mining activity in the last five years is polluting rivers, poisoning people and destroying forests in the Peruvian Amazon
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Tour the London of Yore With a Gigantic New Photo Map
The London Picture Map brings an old city to new life
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How Sojourner Truth Used Photography to Help End Slavery
The groundbreaking orator embraced newfangled technology to make her message heard
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Gouda Find: Divers Discover 340-Year-Old Dairy Product in Shipwreck
One researcher compared the scent to a mixture of yeast and a type of unpasteurized cheese called Roquefort
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Walmart Once Pulled a Shirt That Said “Someday a Woman Will Be President” From Its Shelves
While Hillary Clinton was living in the White House, no less
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Why Ancestral Puebloans Honored People With Extra Digits
New research shows having extra toes or fingers was a revered trait among people living in the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
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Civil Rights Legend John Lewis Won a Prestigious Comic Book Award
With March, Lewis brings his life story to a whole new generation
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