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