Craftsmen who built royal tombs enjoyed sick days, designated physicians and rationed medicine—all paid by the state
Scientists hope the discovery of 1,500-year-old grape seeds may help resurrect the historically famous “Wine of the Negev”
Despite what furniture stores and car dealerships tell you, officially, we’re really just celebrating George Washington’s birthday
One of his slaves fled to New Hampshire to escape becoming a wedding present
Rogue diggers with metal detectors are threatening a priceless archaeological site
The Lincoln Association of Jersey City claims it has the longest record of celebrating Lincoln’s legacy
Victorians seduced their sweeties with "love tokens"
A group of criminal justice reformers find 700 more lynchings in the segregated South than previously recorded
An archivist in England stumbled upon a 715-year-old edition of the charter credited for initiating a new framework of governance
The loan of over 10,000 documents from the Civil Rights icon’s personal life reveals her complexity and inner struggles—as well as one solid pancake recipe
Some Buddhists claim this well-preserved monk is in a deep meditative state
The rare code-breaking documents include sheets used to calculate settings for the machine working on "Enigma"
Barking dogs, harsh guards and brutal imprisonment in a bunker where the USSR never fell
When an English doctor discovered a safer kind of immunity, someone had to spread the word to America
Specimens once thought to be the remains of children or animals are likely a product of the 1800’s “mummy mania”
The film, produced in around 1945, offers a thorough, fact-filled tour of the city
Experiments conducted by a Siberian research team shed light on the neurosurgical methods evident in three Iron Age skulls
The men who participated in a South Carolina sit-in were sentenced to 30 days hard labor in 1961
A centuries-old crypt could hold the answer to the mystery of Cervantes’ missing remains
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