Lessons from history hint at what might happen next
Purple nutsedge is a pest today, but thousands of years ago it was probably valued for its cavity-preventing properties
The digital library includes 195,000 pages of text and 5,000 illustrations
In 1565 a fleet of French ships was destroyed in a hurricane, effectively ending France's hopes of territory in Florida
The ship's remains will be broken down for scrap metal
It took thousands of years for Assyrians to finally give up primitive record-keeping methods
The bones may have been thought to ward off flooding in lakeside villages
A photograph of a young Jewish girl won a contest to find the "perfect example of the Aryan race."
About 2,500 years ago, ancient Greeks were boasting of their sexual conquests in long-lasting graffiti
The papers contain names of spies, descriptions of secret weapons and detailed plots against the West
The National Archives and Records Administration plans to upload everything it can
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is trying to rejigger Japan's long-standing commitment to pacificism
Recent archeological digs have found that people lived in the Colosseum during the medieval era
An archaeological dig in Colorado was the site of a horrific massacre
Inscription on a small metal charm definitively states 'This is a hammer'
A parasite egg found in a grave in the Middle East gives scientists a window into how disease spread in prehistory
Anthropologist Alex Golub tracks the path of mana, from ancient Taiwan to fantasy gaming culture
Traces of feces found in Spain show that neanderthals ate their vegetables
Taft might not have really gotten stuck in a bathtub, but he did seem to have a fondness for them
A new excavation is looking into the location of the famous colony
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