For decades scholars have been studying Plimpton 322, a clay tablet from around 1800 BCE that contains complex mathematical inscriptions
The Ancient Greeks and Romans didn’t wear pants because they found them ridiculous and considered them to be barbarous garments
St. Mark’s Campanile collapsed in 1902, killing no one except the caretaker’s cat
Paris upside down: the city under Haussmann’s renovations
The ever-changing face of power stations reminds us that technology continually evolves to serve our needs
The Stoclet Palace is one of the most luxurious private houses of the 20-th century which includes magnificent mosaic friezes by Gustav Klimt
Thousand-year-old Pueblo compound provides DNA evidence suggesting that Chacoan culture was matrilineal
Shipwreck hunters seek their “Holy Grails” off America’s Northwestern Pacific coast
Phillis Wheatley: the first published African-American female poet
Robert Fulton: the American engineer who developed the first commercially successful steamboat and designed the first practical submarine
