Cool Finds

How a Piano Dropped from a Helicopter Paved the Way For Woodstock

The Piano Drop set the stage for the outdoor rock festival

Illustration of a Greek vase shows Dionysus leading three revelers toward likely hangovers

Cool Finds

Recently Translated Papyrus Details 1,900-Year-Old Hangover Cure

Those disappointed by the effectiveness of this 1,900-year old remedy can instead peruse the eye surgery techniques in other ancient texts

Watercolor illustration of a pony express rider

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The Pony Express Was Short-Lived And Costly

The service only lasted 18 months, but became an important icon of the West

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New York City Ran a Slave Market

New marker will acknowledge the bustling slave trade that helped build New York

Urban Explorations

Tour the Theater Where Lincoln Was Assassinated on Google Street View

150 years later, a new view of Ford’s Theatre

Cool Finds

How Rum Helped the U.S. Win Its Independence

Rum may was a key player in America’s revolutionary days

This pyramid in Lima, Peru was built by the Wari civilization, who pre-dated the Incas. Now Lima is proposing using another Wari innovation, a series of waterways called 'amunas,' to stem the city's ongoing water crisis.

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Ancient Tech Could Help Solve Lima’s Water Crisis

Turns out Peru’s Wari people were excellent urban planners…and their 1,500-year-old ‘amunas’ could soon bring water to Lima

New Research

Northern Europeans Were Not So Sold on Farming

A new study of ancient beads shows “an enduring cultural boundary” between northern and southern Europe during the Neolithic Age

Cool Finds

This Little Kid Discovered a Dinosaur

A rare nodosaur has been found in Texas…by a little boy

Austria

How Did an Ottoman War Camel End Up in an Austrian Basement?

Archaeologists think they have solved the mystery

The newfound ruins could outshine their neighbor, the underground city of Derinkuyu (pictured).

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Archaeologists Unfold World’s Largest Underground City in Turkey

Archaeologists find evidence to believe a site just discovered in 2012 could be a complex subsurface labyrinth

Army Avrocars depicted as "flying jeeps" in company literature

Early Flying Machines Were Just Weird

There’s a reason most designs didn’t stick around

The historic 1910 Fiat S76 rides!

Cool Finds

A Racing Car Built in 1910 Roars to Life Once More

It was unofficially the fastest car in its time and still impresses today

Cool Finds

Here’s What the Apostles Ate at the Last Supper

Beans, charoset, and unleavened bread

Cool Finds

Isaac Newton’s Laundry List of Sin

The famous physicist kept a catalog of very human transgressions

New Research

This Ancient Egyptian Masterpiece Might Be Fake

“Egypt’s Mona Lisa” is likely a sham

New Research

There’s New Information About Anne Frank’s Death

New research challenges the notion that if the Frank sisters had lived a few days more, they’d have survived the war

New Research

This Nasty Medieval Remedy Kills MRSA

An ancient brew could lead to modern-day drugs to fight the superbug

New Research

Why These Stone-Age Farmers Took the Flesh Off Their Dead

New research shows evidence of an early burial rite

Methuselah the Judean Date Palm is still going strong even after sprouting from a 2,000-year-old seed.

Cool Finds

Tree Grown From 2,000-Year-Old Seed Has Reproduced

Age doesn’t have much on this rare piece of greenery sprouted from a seed discovered in an ancient Israeli site

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