Cool Finds
Rare Technicolor Snippets of Lost Films Discovered
The fragments from the 1920s films were found taped to the beginnings and ends of other movies
The Legendary Sultan Saladin Was Likely Killed by Typhoid
Reviewing historical accounts of his death, doctors and historians believe his sweating fits and weakness were brought on by the bacterial infection
Digital Forensics Reconstructs Seven Lost Masterpieces
Artwork by Van Gogh, Klimt, Monet and more have been painstakingly remade by Factum Arte for a new television series
No, the Bone of Saint Clement Was Probably Not Just Found in London's Trash
A waste hauler found the bone fragment in a case sealed with red wax and tied with red cords. It included a faded label reading: “Ex Oss. S Clementis PM"
Some of Hobby Lobby's Smuggled Artifacts May Come From Lost Sumerian City
Among the 3,800 artifacts being repatriated to Iraq today include pieces believed to be from Irisagrig, a site archaeologists have yet to find
Comet "Snowstorm" Swirling in This Stunning GIF Is a Tricky Illusion
“Things are not quite as they seem," explains astronomer Mark McCaughrean
Fossil Tracks May Record Ancient Humans Hunting Giant Sloths
The tracks suggest a human—perhaps in search of food—closely followed the movements of the massive creature
Coin Once Believed to Be Fake Is a Million Dollar Find
Authenticators found a New England collector's Gold Rush-era $5 gold coin is the real McCoy
Did a Prehistoric Surgeon Practice on This Cow?
Though an early human likely created the hole, the reason why remains less clear
Wreck of Nazi Germany's Most Advanced U-Boat Discovered
Sunk in 1945, U-3523, a Type XXI sub, may have been attempting to smuggle high-ranking Nazis to Argentina
Murder Most Fowl: Forensic Scan Shows the Legendary Oxford Dodo Was Shot
Micro-CT scans shows lead scattered across the back of the skull of what is believed to be the taxidermied remains of the dodo brought to Britain
Colony of Beautiful, Doomed Purple Octopuses Found Off Costa Rica
Hundreds of unidentified cephalopods were found nursing their eggs near a deep-sea vent
Cache of Benjamin Franklin's Original Manuscripts—Doodles and All—Gets Digitized
The Library of Congress recently released approximately 8,000 letters, drafts and documents from the founding father
Eleven Never-Before-Seen Artworks Found in the Walls of James Castle's House
The renowned Idaho Outsider artist was known for squirreling his drawings and sculptures away in the walls and ceiling of his Boise home
Ulysses S. Grant's 1849 Home in Detroit May Be Restored
The house he rented as a young officer is now boarded up and full of trash on the site of the former Michigan state fairgrounds
Diamonds Trapped in Strange Meteorite Came From Solar System's Earliest Planets
Impurities in the diamonds could only have formed within a planet the size of Mercury or Mars
This 13 Year Old Helped Find Viking Treasure In Germany
The silver jewelry and coins date to the reign of King Harald Bluetooth and may have been deposited during his flight from Denmark
Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Casket Rediscovered in Former Wine Cellar
Parishioners at St. Michael's Church in Highgate hope to refurbish the crypt after identifying where exactly Coleridge's final resting place was
Super Salty Lakes Found Deep Below Canadian Ice Cap
The discovery could provide insights about life in extreme environments, and help in the search for extraterrestrial life
Large Cache of Texts May Offer Insight Into One of Africa's Oldest Written Languages
Archaeologists in Sudan have uncovered the largest assemblage of Meroitic inscriptions to date
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