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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

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

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

a man in a diving tube on text

100 years of deep-sea filmmaking and ocean exploration

By Bill Gourgey

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

Skull in CT scanner

Viking mouths were a painful mess

Aerial view of Great Wall of China surrounded by forests

The Great Wall of China is 300 years older than we thought

Artwork depicting 16th century bear baiting match

Gruesome bear fights once entertained Elizabethan England

Cut and impact marks indicating cannibalism on various human parts of the skeleton from the Maszycka Cave.

Butchered skulls point to Europe’s Ice Age cannibals

Diagram showing potential labret piercing abrasions on teeth

Ice Age hunter-gatherers may have had cheek piercings, even as children

Selection of coins and jewelry from Hezingen Nordic archeological site

‘Devil’s money’ discovered at medieval cult site

Yellow Cyclone V-Twin motorcycle

A 110-year-old hot rod is the first motorcycle to sell for over $1M at auction

Woman using old cell phone in Nokia ad

12 Nokia Design Archive photos celebrating peak Y2K tech

By Popular Science Staff

Sforza Castle and fountain

Da Vinci was right: Secret tunnels found in Italian castle

The bow of the RMS Titanic as it sits under the water.

‘Titanic’ artifact salvage efforts paused indefinitely

Statue of Emperor Liu He

Researchers make brandy in replica of disgraced emperor’s 2,000-year-old tomb distillery

Lamborghini Miura junkyard auction car

10 of the year’s most interesting auctions: Dinosaurs, coins, and Einstein’s love letters

Pyramids in Giza

Bubonic plague discovered in ancient Egyptian mummy DNA

Aerial shot of Viking grave site

Viking women’s gravesites unearthed to find jewelry, coins, and a ‘vulva stone’

Stonehenge in Wiltshire of the Great Britain. It is a prehistoric monument, in Wiltshire in South West England. It is under protection of UNESCO.

Archeologists think they solved a 4,500-year-old Stonehenge mystery

San Miguel pyramid excavation near highway in Hidalgo, Mexico

Ancient pyramid uncovered during highway construction

Germanic warrior taking stimulants imagined by Stanislav(Stanisław) Kontny, especially for the Praehistorische Zeitschrift. Credit: Stanisław Kontny for Praehistorische Zeitschrift

Roman-era Barbarians snorted stimulants in battle, tiny spoons suggest

Bashlemi inscription tablet with mystery language on black background

Mystery language on ancient stone tablet stumps archeologists

Photo of Mileva Maric and Albert Einstein

Particle Physics

Albert Einstein’s love letters are headed to auction

Researchers have developed a hydrogel that melts into and preserves ancient waterlogged wooden artifacts. Without the gel, the artifacts need to be dried, and that risks damaging the relics.

New goo preserves 800-year-old wooden shipwreck samples

Remains of 28 Civil War soldiers identified in funeral home storage

Beaten biscuit automated machine

Maryland historical society finally identifies 100-year-old mystery machine

View of the bow of the RMS Titanic photographed in June 2004 by the ROV Hercules during an expedition returning to the shipwreck of the Titanic.

A hunk of coal from the Titanic could fetch $780 at auction

HMS Trooper submarine wreckage

WWII submarine discovered 81 years after vanishing on a secret mission

Nine Iranian swords analyzed in this study.

Iron Age swords revealed as ‘Frankenstein’s monster’ black market forgeries

illustration of kaspar hauser

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The most famous mystery science might never solve

By Popular Science Team

USS Stewart bow shipwreck with barnacles and crabs

‘Ghost Ship of the Pacific’ rediscovered with underwater drones

Group of Atlantic walruses (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) on haulout, Vaygach island, Barents sea

Walrus DNA suggests meetings between Vikings and Indigenous Inuit

This oil painting by the Belgian marine artist François Etienne Musin (1820–1888) refers to HMS ‘Erebus’s’ Arctic venture under the command of Sir John Franklin in 1845. For Franklin’s last journey she had been fitted with a steam engine and a screw propeller and was accompanied by HMS ‘Terror’. In 1848 both vessels were abandoned in the ice.

Crew of ill-fated Franklin Expedition cannibalized their commander, archeologists prove