18+ hour, 4+ min ago  (878+ words) L. M. Valdez Potatoes were freeze-dried by the Inca to make them easier to transport and store throughout the empire. While searching a centuries-old Inca storage room in coastal Peru, archaeologists uncovered a pair of astonishingly well-preserved potatoes. In fact, these potatoes…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (858+ words) Ayuntamiento de Guare'a Archaeologists date the chariot to approximately the fifth century B. C. E. In a first-of-its-kind discovery, archaeologists found a well-preserved ceremonial chariot dating back to the 5th century B. C. E. at the Casas del Turu'uelo ruins in Guare'a, Spain. This bronze chariot, which…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (690+ words) Dr. Lee Lowery Jr. /Wikimedia Commons An aerial view showing the aftermath of the walkway collapse at the Hyatt Regency. There's a particular kind of horror in disasters caused by something small. Not a bomb, not a huge natural disaster,…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (689+ words) Archaeologists just found what could be one of the most extensive cave painting discoveries ever made in Anatolia, the storied region of Turkey that played a pivotal role in humankind's prehistoric past. The three-cave system found by researchers in Tohma…...

4+ day, 50+ min ago  (1214+ words) James Byrd Jr. was known in Jasper, Texas, as a talented singer and trumpet player. But on June 7, 1998, he made national headlines for a different reason: his brutal murder at the hands of white supremacists. After accepting a ride from…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago  (829+ words) Vladimiri Bazaliiskii Archaeologists have been excavating these prehistoric burials in Siberia for decades, but they've now been found to contain history's first known bubonic plague cases. Though history's most infamous outbreak of the bubonic plague is the Black Death that…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago  (716+ words) @_ghostpanther/Tik Tok The lyrebird spotted in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. The stereotype about Australia is that everything living there can kill you. There's some truth to this statement. For example, the country is home to the blue…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (1251+ words) Eze Amos/For The Washington Post via Getty Images Sally Hemings" importance has only recently been acknowledged by Monticello, Thomas Jefferson"s historic home. Sally Hemings is one of the most famous women in American history. Rumors, as well as…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago  (702+ words) @madisonnuzzi/Tik Tok Madison Nuzzi's view of Supai from atop the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon is visited by around five million people every year. Still, there's a unique aspect to the canyon that many tourists leave without noticing: the…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago  (759+ words) Jos" Mart'nez Hern'ndez A shrine to the Roman goddess Minerva was found carved directly into the rock at a Spanish quarry. When imagining religious shrines to Roman gods and goddesses, what likely comes to mind are temples, massive structures built…...