A vertebrae from the remains, with a close-up of a cancerous growth (indicated by white arrows).

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This 3,000-Year-Old Human Skeleton Reveals the Earliest Known Example of Cancer

Skeletal scans of the remains, which were found in Sudan, shows the cancer had spread before the victim died

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Janet Yellen Is Holding Her First Meeting as Chairwoman of the Federal Reserve

Less than 10 percent of central bank governors around the world are women

A fragment of the known Dead Sea Scrolls.

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Archaeologists Had Forgotten About Nine of the Dead Sea Scrolls

For the past 60 years, these Dead Sea Scrolls had just been sitting around in a storeroom

World War I: 100 Years Later

Help Transcribe Diaries From World War I

WWI diaries are some of the most requested documents in the National Archives, but until now they’ve only been available on paper

Crimean coastline

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Here’s Your Visual Guide to the Conflict in Crimea

An interactive map that shows the current hotspots and points of interest in the political crisis

Mine!

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Seventy Five Years Ago, the Bronx Tried to Take Over Part of Manhattan With Just a Limo And a Flag

James F. Lyons drove over to Marble Hill and planted his flag, claiming it as his. It didn’t work.

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Stonehenge’s Stones Can Sing

Stonehenge’s mighty bluestones sing when struck

Pyramid of the Sun

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Mexico’s Pyramid of the Sun Is Slowly Turning Into a Pile of Dust

When scientists scanned the pyramid’s insides, they found a giant pile of dust

Part of the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall of China.

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Officials Are Giving the Great Wall of China a “Graffiti Zone”

Kilroy was here

New Research

There’s New Evidence That Communist Leaders Secretly Airlifted Bears to Bulgaria in the ‘70s and ‘80s

Some of these Bulgarian bears are not genetically like the others…

Rocket cat and rocket bird, Buch von den probierten Künsten, Franz Helm, c 1535.

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Incendiary Bats, Rocket Cats: Military Strategists Will Dream of Attaching Firepower to Anything That Moves

In 16th century manuscripts, drawings of feline grenades

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Tennessee Is About To Get a New State Artifact

A Native American sculpture is about to become Tennessee’s state artifact

Quick, wash off the arsenic before it melts your skin!

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To Get Rid of Body Hair, Renaissance Women Made Lotions of Arsenic, Cat Dung And Vinegar

“When the skin feels hot, wash quickly with hot water so the flesh doesn’t come off”

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Officially, More People Died Falling Off the Great Fire of London Monument Than in the Fire—But Only Officially

Which makes more sense, considering the fire destroyed nearly 90 percent of the homes in the city

New Research

Neanderthal Hunters Probably Didn’t Herd Mammoths Off Cliffs

Not that it’s impossible, in general; it just probably didn’t happen at this one particular spot

Cheese

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The Oldest Cheese in the World Was Found on Chinese Mummies

A strange substance found on the neck and chest of mummies in China is the world’s oldest cheese

V-J Day in Times Square, New York City.

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That Time the U.S. Government Made All Bars in America Close At Midnight

In 1945, the government gave America a nationwide curfew for the first and last time

Ukraine's Independence Square February 23

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Ukrainian Protesters Are Already Establishing a Museum for Maidan Artifacts

Less than a week after the uprising in the Ukraine, some groups are already documenting the historic moment

New Research

The Mystery of This 500-Year Old Mummy Is Only Beginning To Be Solved

For more than a century, no one in Germany knew where this mummy came from

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Scientists Figure Out Where Stonehenge Stones Came From, Still Don’t Know How They Got to Stonehenge

Scientists add two miles to the stone’s 140 mile trip, but still don’t know how they made it

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