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The Adventures of Prince Achmed, the Oldest Surviving Animated Feature Film, Is Now in the Public Domain (1926)

about 22 hours ago

Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed, or The Adventures of Prince Achmed, lays...

Rome in 1890 Captured in Color Photographs: The Colosseum, Forum, Trevi Fountain & More

about 23 hours ago

For almost two hundred years, English gentlemen could not consider their education...

Behold the First Realistic Depiction of the Human Face (Circa 25,000 BCE)

2 days ago

?si=HOvgnTtB4xSNqpNE In 1894, archaeologist Édouard Piette discovered the “Venus of Brassempouy,” otherwise...

The Greatest Double Agent Ever: How a Spanish Chicken Farmer Became the Most Important Double Agent in WWII

2 days ago

Juan Pujol García was one of the rare individuals whose participation in...

How Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Created the Blueprint for Modern Science Fiction (1927)

5 days ago

A vast, miserable proletariat squanders its days in meaningless toil. Society is...

How Medieval Cathedrals Were Built Without Science, or Even Mathematics

6 days ago

Science and engineering may be conflated to some degree in the public...

What Did the Instruments in Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights Sound Like? Oxford Scholars Recreate Them

6 days ago

Welcome to The Garden of Earthly Delights You’ll find no angelic strings...

The Ingenious Engineering of Silk: How the 2,000-Year-Old Pattern Loom Powered the Silk Road and the Wealth of Ancient China

7 days ago

The Silk Road’s long period of high activity spanned the second century...

Hear Aldous Huxley Read Brave New World. Plus 84 Classic Radio Dramas from CBS Radio Workshop (1956–57)

7 days ago

We seem to be living through yet another major moment for podcasting...

How to Carve Hieroglyphs Just Like the Ancient Egyptians Did

8 days ago

In ancient Egypt, writing hieroglyphs was a highly specialized skill, one commanded...

How to Make Coffee in the Bialetti Moka Pot: The “Ultimate Techique”

8 days ago

In Italy, roughly 70% of households have a Bialetti Moka Pot. And...

An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published

9 days ago

Imagine you could talk to Hieronymus Bosch, the authors of the Book...