Decorating Easter eggs became a Christian custom by 13th century, with the hard-boiled shell representing Jesus’ empty tomb
An ancient landfill: A huge artificial hill in Italy helps archaeologists understand how trading networks worked in Rome
Big Bird was on the short list for the Space Shuttle but didn’t make the cut–fortunately, as it turned out
A set of strange mummified remains found in Chile fed alien-among-us theories for decades, but it is a tragic human story
An ancient landfill: A huge artificial hill in Italy yields helps archaeologists understand how trading networks worked in Rome
Taken in 1826, “View from the Window at Le Gras” is the world’s first photograph
Sufi mystics’ reverence for coffee led to Yemen’s world monopoly on bean production—for 300 years
Three years in a freezing lake turned a dead woman’s flesh to soap, but her thug husband didn’t get away with murder
Hiroo Onoda: the legendary Japanese holdout in the Philippines who surrendered 29 years after his country capitulated
Roger Fenton, the very first war photographer, captured the grim reality of the Crimean War
