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Göbekli Tepe: The 12,000-Year-Old Ruins That Rewrite the Story of Civilization

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We didn’t have civilization until we had cities, and we didn’t have...

Download 1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli

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You may have seen every single one of Studio Ghibli’s animated films...

The Earliest Known Customer Complaint Was Made 3,800 Years Ago: Read the Rant on an Ancient Babylonian Tablet

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Image via Wikimedia Commons The site Fast Company published an article that...

Was the Baghdad Battery Actually a Battery?: An Archaeologist Demystifies the 2,000-Year-Old Artifact

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Image by Ironie, via Wikimedia Commons The average Open Culture reader may...

Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future on The David Letterman Show (1980)

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In 1980, Newsweek published a cantankerous and sadly on-the-nose diagnosis of the...

See What the Original Mona Lisa Likely Looked Like

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If you want to see the Mona Lisa in real life, your...

Read the Uplifting Letter That Albert Einstein Sent to Marie Curie During a Time of Personal Crisis (1911)

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Marie Curie’s 1911 Nobel Prize win, her second, for the discovery of...

How Frank Gehry (RIP) and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Changed Architecture

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It felt, for quite some time there, like the age of Frank...

“The Matilda Effect”: How Pioneering Women Scientists Have Been Written Out of Science History

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Photo via Wikimedia Commons The history of science, like most every history...

The Gnostic Gospels: An Introduction to the Forbidden Teachings of Jesus

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It would be impossible to understand Western civilization without understanding the history...

Did Tintin Creator Hergé Collaborate with the Nazis? A Historical Investigation

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The Adventures of Tintin may be a children’s comic series from mid-twentieth-century...

George Orwell’s Six Rules for Writing Clear and Tight Prose

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Image via Wikimedia Commons Most everyone who knows the work of George...