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Bow of the USS Preston shipwreck sunk in WWII

13 World War II shipwrecks captured in stunning detail

Neolithic burial pit

Electrical workers uncover 5,000-year-old burial pits in Germany

Illustrations of Ice Age mummy tattoo restorations

Tattoo artists and scientists resurrect a 2,000-year-old mummy’s ink

Hawaiian petroglyphs on sandstone beach with tidal wave

500-year-old petroglyphs resurface on Hawai’i beach

Limestone tomb marker of Polish medieval knight

Medieval knight’s grave discovered under ice cream shop

Tibetan Buddhist pray scroll next to example of its X-ray scan

X-ray scans reveal Buddhist prayers inside tiny Tibetan scrolls

Debbie Harry and Andy Warhol

40 years ago, Andy Warhol helped debut the Commodore Amiga computer

Rib fragment with flint arrowhead embedded in it

The 4,000-year-old mystery of a shepherd’s arrow to the back

Medieval manuscripts like the Cotton MS Vitellius C III highlight uses for herbs that reflect modern-day wellness trends. Image Credit: The British Library.

Dark Age detoxes sometimes resembled TikTok health trends

Roman tile art depicting two lovers with woman's backside blurred

Stolen during WWII, an erotic Roman mosaic returns home

Illustration scroll for The Tale of Genji from Medieval Japan

College students digitized 795 poems from the world’s oldest novel

The XIX copy sculpture of an ancient Roman Emperor - Caligula - Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus

Mad emperor Caligula may have been a big plant guy

Shipwreck bow covered in sea life underwater

Shipwreck fragment linked to one of WWII’s strangest rescue tales

Close up of hand applying acupuncture needles to back

Oldest known steel acupuncture needles discovered in disgraced emperor’s tomb

bald man silouhetted on text

100 years ago, scientists predicted we’d live to 1,000 years old

By Bill Gourgey

Portrait of Galileo Galilei

Ultra-rare first edition book from Galileo heading to auction

Facial reconstruction of the individual from Nuwayrat using 3D scan data of the skull and analysis of the bones.

First complete ancient Egyptian DNA genome reveals his occupation

The city of Dubrovnik, Croatia, seen on sunny day with ship sailing in the bay

18th century shipwreck discovered at ‘Game of Thrones’ filming location

Charlie Chaplin looking through icy window in The Gold Rush

Long-lost Charlie Chaplin film meticulously restored after 100 years

Black and white portrait of Albert Einstein

Einstein’s letter to Japan about atomic bomb fails to sell at auction

Newgrange burial mound on sunny day in Ireland

Incestuous ‘god-kings’ may not have ruled Stone Age Ireland after all

Archeologist digging in building foundation site

Archaeologists unearth cellar in America’s first school for enslaved children

hand holding Spanish 8 Maravedis coin close-up

17th century Spanish coin found in ‘Diamond Don’s RV Park’

Overhead shot of Viking archeological dig site

Construction workers find Viking graves linked to King ‘Bluetooth’

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

text in the background, a man sitting at the first tv in foreground

100 years ago, the battle for television raged

By Bill Gourgey

Shipwreck anchor and jugs underwater

Shipwreck over a mile deep has centuries’ old artifacts—and modern garbage

Two archeologists surveying site in Turkey

Archaeologists uncover royal tomb tied to the real King Midas

Gold coins scattered on ocean floor

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

$The fracture of BG1.12 is shown in various views (A–F). The skull fracture in this specimen starts at the anterior part of the frontal bone and extends diagonally to the sagittal border of the left parietal bone (G). Credit: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology (2025). DOI: 10.1002/oa.3415$

Ancient cone-shaped skull shows signs of fatal trauma

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

An Egyptian artifact with flecks of Egyptian dye being examined by researcher

Scientists recreate lost recipes for a 5,000-year-old Egyptian blue dye

Masted schooner ship at sea

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

View from Viking clinker sail boat at sea

Archaeologists are taking to the high seas in Viking ships

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.

Partially excavated Roman floor mosaic

Smugglers busted near Turkish castle for trying to steal Roman mosaic

an aerial train car set on top of text

A century ago, suspended monorails were serious mass-transit contenders

By Bill Gourgey

CGI recreation of Athena statue in the Parthenon

View the Parthenon as it stood in 432 BCE

Close up of MingKwai keyboard with Chinese characters on keys

First Chinese typewriter rediscovered in grandfather’s basement

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

Pile of historic gold coins

Hikers discover nearly 600 gold coins dating back to 1808

Scientists working on space probe in lab

A dead Soviet space probe from 1972 is falling back to Earth

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

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

World War II jeep found at site of underwater shipwreck

NOAA needs help identifying car found in WWII shipwreck

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

Glaciers in Iceland

Ancient rocks tie Roman Empire’s collapse to a mini ice age

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

Cave site on near ocean coast of Malta at sunset

Cave discovery could rewrite 1,000 years of Mediterranean history

a cut out from old magazine on text background

Why we can’t squash the common cold, even after 100 years of studying it

By Bill Gourgey

Medieval copy of Canterbury Tales

A surprising number of medieval scribes were women