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The Roman Empire’s Vast Road Network—186,000 Miles of It—Has Just Been Mapped in a New Digital Atlas

about 24 hours ago

Everywhere you look, you can find traces of the ancient Roman civilization...

A 400-Year-Old Ring that Unfolds to Track the Movements of the Heavens

2 days ago

Rings with a discreet dual purpose have been in use since before...

Discover the Oldest Book of the Americas: A Close Look at the Astronomical Maya Codex of Mexico

3 days ago

From the mighty Maya civilization, which dominated Mesoamerica for more than three...

Inside the Making of the Alien Suit: How H. R. Giger’s Dark Vision Came to Life in Ridley Scott’s Film

3 days ago

In the whole of Alien, the titular entity only appears on screen...

How Marlon Brando Changed Acting: Inside a Scene from On the Waterfront

4 days ago

Marlon Brando has now been gone for more than two decades, and...

Explore Frank Lloyd Wright’s Iconic Houses Through Eight Short Documentaries

4 days ago

Look up the word architecture in the dictionary, and though you won’t...

The 1957 “Spaghetti-Grows-on-Trees” Hoax: One of TV’s First April Fools’ Day Pranks

5 days ago

In 1957, the BBC program Panorama aired one of the first televised...

Nikola Tesla Accurately Predicted the Rise of Wireless Technology & the Smartphone in 1926

5 days ago

Certain cult historical figures have served as prescient avatars for the techno-visionaries...

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” Read by Christopher Walken, Christopher Lee & Vincent Price

8 days ago

Of the many readings and adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic moody-broody...

When Marcel Duchamp Drew a Mustache & Goatee on the Mona Lisa (1919)

9 days ago

Apart from certain stretches of absence, Leonardo’s Mona Lisa has been on...