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Looking Back at NASA’s Strange Mobile Lunar Laboratory
Unfortunately, the odd-looking MOLAB remained earthbound
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Along I-95, 5,000 Years of History
Archaeological excavations along I-95 are digging up the past
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The Horrific Downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 Has Echoes in History
Lessons from history hint at what might happen next
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Ancient Tooth Plaque Shows Our Ancestors Used to Feast on Weeds
Purple nutsedge is a pest today, but thousands of years ago it was probably valued for its cavity-preventing properties
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You Can Now Riffle Through the Same Library Charles Darwin Used Aboard the Beagle
The digital library includes 195,000 pages of text and 5,000 illustrations
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Archaeologists Are Hunting for the Lost French Fleet That Nearly Conquered Spanish Florida
In 1565 a fleet of French ships was destroyed in a hurricane, effectively ending France’s hopes of territory in Florida
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The Wrecked Costa Concordia Cruise Ship Is Finally Being Towed Away
The ship’s remains will be broken down for scrap metal
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Some Ancient Assyrians Ignored the Advent of Writing for Thousands of Years
It took thousands of years for Assyrians to finally give up primitive record-keeping methods
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Children’s Skulls Encircled Some Bronze Age Lake Villages
The bones may have been thought to ward off flooding in lakeside villages
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How One 1930s German Photographer Successfully Trolled the Nazi Party
A photograph of a young Jewish girl won a contest to find the “perfect example of the Aryan race.”
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Archaeologists in Greece Find Some of the World’s Oldest Erotic Graffiti
About 2,500 years ago, ancient Greeks were boasting of their sexual conquests in long-lasting graffiti
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Thousands of Secret KGB Espionage Documents Are Now Available to the Public
The papers contain names of spies, descriptions of secret weapons and detailed plots against the West
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The National Archives Wants to Put Its Whole Collection on Wikimedia Commons
The National Archives and Records Administration plans to upload everything it can
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After WWII, Japan Made One of the World’s Strongest Commitments to Military Pacifism—Which It’s Now Going to Soften
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is trying to rejigger Japan’s long-standing commitment to pacificism
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The Colosseum Was a Housing Complex in Medieval Times
Recent archeological digs have found that people lived in the Colosseum during the medieval era
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Archeologists Find Evidence of Torture at 1,200 Year Old Massacre
An archaeological dig in Colorado was the site of a horrific massacre
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Small Viking Charms Really Do Represent Thor’s Hammer
Inscription on a small metal charm definitively states ‘This is a hammer’
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Mesopotamian Irrigation May Have Helped Out a Parasite That Now Infects 200 Million People
A parasite egg found in a grave in the Middle East gives scientists a window into how disease spread in prehistory
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How Did “Mana,” An Austronesian Religious Idea, Become a Gaming Staple?
Anthropologist Alex Golub tracks the path of mana, from ancient Taiwan to fantasy gaming culture
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Neanderthals Ate Their Vegetables
Traces of feces found in Spain show that neanderthals ate their vegetables
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