A remarkable pair of letters from Tolkien to Mary Fairburn, an artist who sent him several scenes from “Lord of the Rings,” sold at an auction News
An ancient bird with sharp teeth inherited from dinosaurs sheds new details on how our avian friends evolved Archeology News Strangeness
Dead Sea Scrolls news: imaging technology has helped researchers detect previously hidden text News Archeology
The decades-long mystery behind the “sailing stones” of Racetrack Playa in Death Valley may be solved News Strangeness
An Argentinean engineer could have developed a “rainmaking machine” as early as the 1930s, though there’s no trace of it today Strangeness News Self-Propelled
First Titanic menu, listing options such as Spring Lamb and Pudding Sans Souci, fetched about $140,000 at an auction News
Scotland’s Isle of Skye reveals landmark dinosaur footprints dated to the Middle Jurassic era Archeology News
The Egtved Girl, found in Denmark in 1921, was a true Bronze Age traveler of high status, with a sense of fashion too News Archeology
An invitation to a 100 A.D. birthday party is among the Vindolanda tablets, oldest surviving Roman handwritten documents in Britain Archeology News
Gripping Titanic photo that reveals a burial at sea among the items offered at auction, with a Titanic menu also going on the block News