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The World’s Oldest Multicolor Printed Book Was Too Fragile to Read…Until Now
The 1633 book has now been digitized
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Could a Door in King Tut’s Tomb Lead to Nefertiti?
There could be more in Tutanhkamun’s burial chamber than meets the eye
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What’s Behind China’s Professional Tomb Raiding Trend?
Move over, Lara Croft: raiding tombs is an increasingly viable career in China
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Did Shakespeare Smoke Pot?
Tobacco pipes in the Bard’s backyard may retain traces of cannabis, but some historians remain skeptical
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This is the First Known Photo of the Smithsonian Castle
On the Smithsonian’s 175th birthday, a glimpse into the iconic Castle’s construction
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Bats and Balloon Bombs: The Weird Weapons That Could Have Won WWII
World War II’s lesser-known weapons were ingenious, indeed
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Could This Video Solve One of History’s Greatest Art Mysteries?
Footage shows an unknown man entering the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum the night before the infamous robbery
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These Academics Are Outracing (and Outwitting) ISIS
Historians, archaeologists and librarians scramble to save precious cultural capital before it can be sold or destroyed by militants
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Americans Have Always Loved to Hate Presidential Debates
Audiences are ambivalent — but they still tune in
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The Nagasaki Bombing Almost Didn’t Happen
What really happened on the mission to drop the second atomic bomb
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The Health Effects of the Atom Bomb Are Still Being Studied
Studies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors influence worldwide radiation standards, even 70 years later
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Blueberries: A Biography
The world’s commercial blueberries all have their roots in New Jersey
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He Designed the Sydney Opera House…But Wasn’t Even Invited to its Opening
Somehow, an inexperienced architect and a mismanaged project still produced one of the world’s most iconic buildings
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Astronauts Fill Out Customs Forms, Too
Read Buzz Aldrin’s expense report and customs form from his Apollo 11 mission to the moon
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Teen Schools Professor on “No Irish Need Apply” Signs
Armed with a Google search and a theory, a 14-year-old enters the fray on a longstanding historical debate
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The Parks Service Just Added Four New National Historic Landmarks
Masonic memorials, bison jumps and parks
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North Korea’s Military Still Uses Stealth Planes From the 1940s
The An-2 can hover and fly backwards
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A 13th-Century Sword Is Giving Historians a Headache
The sword’s inscription is an 800-year-old mystery
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Scientists Have Been Talking About Greenhouse Gases for 191 Years
The first explorations of the greenhouse effect began in 1824
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The United States Once Invaded and Occupied Haiti
In 1915, American troops began a 19-year, unofficial occupation of the Caribbean nation
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