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The location of Genghis Khan's grave has been a mystery for centuries.

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Amateur Explorers Are Using High-Res Satellite Images to Search for Genghis Khan's Tomb

Amateur explorers used ultra-high resolution satellite images to help search for the grave of one of the world’s most powerful rulers

Stony Ground by Edwin Austin Abbey

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The Second Divorce in Colonial America Happened Today in 1643

The Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans weren’t as conservative as you may have thought

Spores on the conidiophores of the fungus Penicillium notatum.

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We Used to Recycle Drugs From Patients' Urine

Penicillin extracted from a patient's urine could be reused

A ninth century merchant ship unearthed in Turkey.

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Nearly 40 Byzantine Shipwrecks Were Recently Unearthed in Turkey

The exceptionally well-preserved ships offer new insight into ship-building history

Shrine to Uwais al-Qurani and Ammar Bin Yasser. After: October 6, 2014. All three tombs on the outside of the shrine, their minarets and a section of the linking arcaded pricinct have been destroyed.

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Satellite Photos Show Hundreds of Syrian Heritage Sites Damaged In Ongoing Fighting

The new satellite photos show the extent of the damage

Sculptures in St. Anthony's Chapel in Pittsburgh.

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Pittsburgh Has a Huge Collection of Relics

St. Anthony’s Chapel contains the largest number of relics outside of the Vatican

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The Oldest Olive Oil Ever Found Is 8,000 Years Old

Chemical analyses unveil traces of olive oil in ancient Israeli pottery

A recreation of the test that led to Louis Slotin's accident

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After WWII, Scientists Conducted Deadly Tests With an Unexploded Nuclear Bomb Core

Physicist Richard Feynman called the tests "tickling the tail of a sleeping dragon"

Cuban Fruit peddlers stopped along Malecon Sea drive in Havana, to peddle their wares: Mangos, melons, and pineapples. March 30, 1949,

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Back When Americans Could Travel Freely to Cuba, Here's What It Looked Like

The U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba in 1960

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Why the Pantheon Hasn’t Crumbled

Ancient Roman concrete has some benefits over modern equivalents

A sonar view looking down on part of the 345 foot-long SS City of Rio de Janeiro

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Found: The Wreckage of the SS City of Rio de Janeiro, the “Bay Area’s Titanic”

The maritime disaster was the worst in Bay Area history

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Typhoons Saved 13th Century Japan From Invasion

Geologic evidence supports historic accounts of the great "Kamikaze" of 1274 and 1281

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The Science of the Red Sea's Parting

It is physically and scientifically possible for a body of water to part

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Creep Through Albert Einstein’s Love Letters

The Digital Einstein archive offers a look into the great physicist's writings

A historical altered photo showing a mushroom cloud over the United Nations and New York City waterfront

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Tour the Great Wide World of Mushroom Cloud Imagery

Nuclear testing yielded far more, and more diverse, images of mushroom clouds than those that are commonly shown

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The Largest Manmade Block Ever Was Just Discovered in Lebanon

The block was never used, likely because it was too big to transport

An engraving of "Mr. Garrick" as Richard III in a production of Shakespeare’s play

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Richard III’s DNA Analysis Reveals Cuckoldry in the Family

Researchers can trace the monarch’s maternal lineage to modern relatives, but not the male side

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Hollywood Asked for Freeway Noise Barriers First

It only makes sense that the problem of road noise cropped up in Los Angeles

New Amsterdam, Now New York, on the Island of Manhattan by Johannes Vinckeboons

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New Amsterdam's First Laws: Drink Less, Fight Less

New Amsterdam was controlled by the Dutch from 1624 to 1664

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Experts Have No Idea Who This Roman God Is

A recently unearthed carving combines Roman and Mesopotamian elements but may represent a god from an even earlier time

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