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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

a woman and a patent

The forgotten story of the woman who invented the dishwasher

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

Popular Science Videos

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

Crystal Palace in 1851 Britain.

How standard screws cracked a 173-year-old architectural mystery

Skeletal remains of child buried in vampire grave

Medieval child ‘vampire burial’ exhumed near Polish cathedral

Starship Titanic promo art displaying the ship's in-game bots

The improbable voyage of Starship Titanic, the 1998 Douglas Adams video game filled with ‘unhinged’ chatbots

Titanic bow wreckage underwater

The famous railing from ‘Titanic’ has broken off from Titanic

Apple-1 Computer owned by Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs’ very own Apple-I computer is for sale

Illustration of Enalioetes head

This ancient crocodile looked kind of like a dolphin

Pyramid of Djoser with camel

Egypt’s oldest pyramid may have been built using a hydraulic lift

ham radio hobbyist

The rich history of ham radio culture

By Kristen Haring / MIT Press Reader

Astronomy: a 40-foot telescope constructed by William Herschel, in use outdoors. Coloured etching, 18--. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark.

Space Telescope

400 years of telescopes: A window into our study of the cosmos

By Bill Gourgey

Breakdown of Antikythera mechanism

The world’s oldest mechanical computer used a lunar calendar to study the stars

Microsoft Windows 3D tubes screensaver screenshot

Those iconic ’90s Windows screensavers had a purpose

Detail from the reconstructed stone tzompantli, or skull rack, at Chichén Itzá.

Ancient Mayan human sacrifices involved twins

Visualisation of the central grave/main burial of the Grafenbühl mound

DNA suggests ancient Celtic royalty was matrilineal

The Red Pyramid at the Dahshur necropolis, constructed during the Fourth Dynasty.

Long-lost Nile branch may explain landlocked pyramids

Video game hall of fame 2024 inductees

The World Video Game Hall of Fame announces its 2024 inductees

Archivist scanning documents at National Archives

Ancestry and the National Archives are digitizing tens of millions of records

Assyrian mural image of lion

Ancient mystery code was probably Sargon II’s name

Statue of Plato in Greece

A ‘bionic eye’ scan of an ancient, scorched scroll points to Plato’s long-lost gravesite

Brewintosh Plus next to original Mac Plus

A designer 3D printed a working clone of the iconic Mac Plus

2,000 new characters from burnt-up ancient Greek scroll deciphered with AI

2,000 new characters from burnt-up ancient Greek scroll deciphered with AI

Antique zimingzhong mechanical clock

It’s time to check out these incredible antique musical clocks

In tracing signed vocabularies’ evolutions, researchers applied phylogenetic analysis typically associated with biologically inherited traits to physically conveyed communications.

Computer modeling is tracing the hidden evolution of sign languages