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Alan Turing portrait atop his papers

Saved from the shredder, Alan Turing’s papers sell for $627,000

Nordic runes etched into stone slab illuminated by flashlight

Runes found in Canadian wilderness baffle archaeologists

Fragment with portion of inscription that says Odysseus

Ancient Greek inscriptions point to the ‘Sanctuary of Odysseus’

Cursor pointing at Spam inbox

That ‘unsubscribe’ button may be a scam

Two archeologists surveying site in Turkey

Archaeologists uncover royal tomb tied to the real King Midas

Thrush songbird

Ancient Romans snacked on deep-fried songbirds

Gold coins scattered on ocean floor

Gold coins confirm ‘world’s richest shipwreck’ is 18th century Spanish galleon

Viking boat grave burial near road in Norway

Viking woman buried in ceremonial boat with her dog

Illustration of medieval English fair

Medieval cold case is a salacious tale of sex, power, and mayhem

Part of Dead Sea Scroll number 28a (1Q28a) from Qumran Cave 1. From Qumran (Khirbet Qumran or Wadi Qumran), West Bank of the Jordan River, near the Dead Sea, modern-day State of Israel. The Jordan Museum, Amman, Jordan Hashimite Kingdom.

Dead Sea Scrolls possibly even older than scholars thought

Close up of gold pocket watch

Pocket watch from Great Lakes’ deadliest shipwreck returned to family

Masted schooner ship at sea

Skull found on New Jersey beach linked to 19th century shipwreck

Speech bubble with swear word symbols on red background

US ranks first in swearing

View from Viking clinker sail boat at sea

Archaeologists are taking to the high seas in Viking ships

Magnus Carlsen speaking into microphone at chess event

143,000 people teamed up to tie the world’s top chess player

Woman sleeping in bed with tape over mouth

Don’t tape your mouth before bed

Close up of Rubik's cube solving machine

College students demolish world record for fastest Rubik’s cube robot

testical dagger artifact

Medieval ‘testicle dagger’ lives up to its name

Black and white image of large tugboat

Fisherman discovers century-old Great Lakes shipwreck

Back of US gold coin depicting NASA space shuttle launch

US Mint releases Space Shuttle $1 gold coin

Man comparing digitized Magna Carta on laptop to notes in book

Harvard paid $27 for a Magna Carta copy in 1946. It’s actually an original.

A new 5G cell tower stands on a high-rise building

Study debunks 5G health conspiracy theory (again)

Partially excavated Roman floor mosaic

Smugglers busted near Turkish castle for trying to steal Roman mosaic

CGI recreation of Athena statue in the Parthenon

View the Parthenon as it stood in 432 BCE

Competitors in indoor skydiving wind tunnel

The dizzying acrobatics of the World Indoor Skydiving Championships

Close up of MingKwai keyboard with Chinese characters on keys

First Chinese typewriter rediscovered in grandfather’s basement

Urban farming sustainability concept, captured in Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Surviving global catastrophe is a matter of community, not commerce

Archeologist working in Roman cellar dig site

Ancient Roman infant burials uncovered under Switzerland housing project

Aerial shot of Chavin de Huantar

Heavy hallucinogenic rituals solidified social castes in Pre-Incan Peru

Doune flintlock pistols displayed in case

300-year-old ‘Doune pistols’ finally return to their hometown in Scotland

Mummified priest holding cross in coffin with skull blurred out

Mummified Austrian priest’s rectum played important role in preservation

Nut’s cosmological vignette on the outer coffin of Nesitaudjatakhet in the collection of Odessa Archaeological Museum OAM 52976 (C107). Nut’s body is covered in stars as well as a thick, undulating black curve that runs from the soles of her feet to the tips of her fingers. This curve, surrounded by stars on both sides, is reminiscent of the Milky Way’s Great Rift. Credit: Mykola Tarasenko; Odessa Archaeological Museum, NASU

Tomb art suggests Egyptian sky goddess wore the Milky Way galaxy

Pile of historic gold coins

Hikers discover nearly 600 gold coins dating back to 1808

Toucan beak decorated with beads in museum display

Lavish gravesite confirms women’s power in ancient South America

Beyeaux tapestry section depiction horseman and soldier fighting with yellow arrow highlighting horse's penis

Medieval tapestry’s penis count remains a bone of contention

unfinished Goldin Finance 117 skyscraper surrounded by city on a sunny day

World’s tallest abandoned skyscraper resumes construction

Side by side of uncooked and cooked 3D printed vegan calamari rings

3D-printed calamari is back on the menu

Two men standing over iron chariot wheel artifact in field

Iron Age chariot wheel found under golf course in Scotland

Oil painting of Gladiator fighting a lion in the Colosseum in Rome

Gladiator bones finally confirm human-lion combat in Roman Europe

We're Safety Now Haven't We album art featuring animals in photoshopped helmets and on smoke detectors

PSA: US government’s dance album about helmets and smoke alarms is a banger

This is an artist’s impression of the exoplanet 2M1510 (AB) b’s unusual orbit around its host stars, a pair of brown dwarfs. The newly discovered planet has a polar orbit, which is perpendicular to the plane in which the two stars are travelling. Polar planets around single stars had been found before, as well as polar discs of gas and dust capable of forming planets around binary stars. But thanks to ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) this is the first time we have strong evidence that such a planet actually exists in a polar orbit around two stars. The two brown dwarfs appear as a single source in the sky, but astronomers know there are two of them because they periodically eclipse each other. Using the UVES spectrograph on the VLT they measured their orbital speed, and noticed that their orbits change over time. After carefully ruling out other explanations, they concluded that the gravitational tug of a planet in a polar orbit was the only way to explain the motion of the brown dwarfs.

Exoplanet with two ‘suns’ is even more unique than Tatooine

Skelleftea, Sweden A moose warning sign on a country road in summer.

It’s time to tune in to the Great Moose Migration livestream

Gary Feinman and a crew member exposing a plaster floor on Terrace 925 in El Palmillo.

Inequality isn’t inevitable, according to ‘unprecedented’ archeology study

Oklahoma City USA - September 9 2015; Oklahoma City Bombing Field of Empty Chairs a sculpture in bronze and glass remembering the 168 killed in bombing in 1997

Oklahoma City bombing trauma changed the ‘actual physical being’ of survivors

Iconic Windows 95 startup chime added to National Recording Registry

Gooseneck kettle pouring water into pour-over coffee carafe on table next to coffee beans and mugs

How to brew the best pour-over coffee, according to science

Man swimming in river seen from POV of GoPro camera

YouTuber arrested for approaching uncontacted tribe in India

Medieval copy of Canterbury Tales

A surprising number of medieval scribes were women

Top down photo of stone grave site

Sacrificed teens discovered in ancient Mesopotamian burial site

This image, made with Multispectral Imaging and processed using the Minimal Noise Fraction method, brings out annotations on the left-hand side which were invisible to the naked eye, including the stamp ‘Huntingfield’ believed to have been added in the 16th century when the manuscript was repurposed as a binding.

Rare Merlin and King Arthur text found hidden in binding of medieval book

Close up of Sutton Hoo helmet fragments

Metal detector find may rewrite history of 7th century helmet

Bridge over water in Rio Vista, California

Billionaire utopian city launches new shipyard plan

An Egyptian pharaoh tomb excavation site with people working

A mystery pharaoh’s massive tomb was discovered in Egypt

Depas goblet, excavated by Heinrich Schliemann, 15 cm high, collection of classical archaeology, University of Tübingen. Credit: Valentin Marquardt, University of Tübingen

Trojans of all classes enjoyed a nice jug of wine

Close up of mask-like face decoration on Iron Age vessel

Amateur metal detector uncovers massive Iron Age treasure hoard

Sunset at Buckingham Palace

The sun has literally set on the British Empire

ET model from ET the Extra-Terrestrial movie

An original E.T. from 1982 movie could fetch $1M at auction

Mummy on sheet and cardboard with pixelated midsection

Medieval mummy found in accused smuggler’s home

Compilation of Guthman Music Competition participants

Electromagnetic fields and dinosaur choir win international instrument contest

close up of tinfoil hat on man against blue background

Poor sleep can make you more susceptible to conspiracy theories

Two astronauts holding plushies inside ISS

NASA wants your help designing its Artemis II mascot

The North Berwick Witches meet the Devil in the local kirkyard, from a contemporary pamphlet, Newes from Scotland

Scotland certifies official tartan to honor its ‘witches’

Philippines ocean coast with mountains

Southeast Asian sailors possibly mastered seafaring before Polynesians

Microscopic Lego bricks on pinhead next to human hair

The world’s smallest handmade sculpture is a blood cell-sized Lego brick