Patients that needed bloodletting were sent to the barbershops – hence the red & white pole outside of them News
Hyeronimus Bosch’s triptych “The Garden of Earthly Delights” can be closed to reveal another painting on its exterior panels News
The Greek engineer Ctesibius of Alexandria is credited with inventing the pipe organ in the 3rd century B.C. and improving the clepsydra, the most accurate clock for more than 1,800 years News Self-Propelled
Before Radar, they used these giant concrete “Sound Mirrors” to detect incoming enemy aircraft Abandoned Spaces Strangeness
The Rosetta Stone: A decree carved in three different scripts is helping linguists decipher ancient texts Featured News
Ananda Temple: One of the largest and best-preserved Buddhist temples in Bagan, Myanmar Abandoned Spaces News
Site discovered in Northern Iraq may be that of an ancient outpost of the Akkadian Empire Featured News
Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s “The Little Prince” was partly inspired by a plane crash that left the writer stranded in the Libyan desert News