Hidden wartime footage of a secret World War II code-breaking site in Southern England has been discovered. The footage is of Whaddon Hall in Buckinghamshire, a secret site connected to the famous Bletchley Park code-breaking base. Experts at Bletchley Park helped break the famous German Enigma Code. Bletchley Park is now a museum dedicated to […]
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Spring breakers partying amid coronavirus: How cultural behaviors can influence the spread of COVID-19
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. People across the country were outraged by images of Spring Breakers partying on Florida beaches amid growing concern over the coronavirus pandemic. University of Missouri professor Carolyn Orbann said there might be more to the college students’ actions […]
Final survivor of last American slave ship identified
The final survivor of the transatlantic slave trade has been identified after painstaking research. Matilda McCrear was just two years old when she was captured by slave traders in West Africa and transport to the U.S. on the Clotilda, the last American slave ship. The Clotilda docked in Mobile, Alabama in July 1860. McCrear died in […]
Mysterious 5,000-year-old sword discovered in Venetian monastery
A doctoral student in Italy discovered an ancient 5,000-year-old sword in a Venetian monastery. The student, Vittoria Dall’Armellina, was visiting the San Lazzaro degli Armeni Museum on an island in the Venetian lagoon when she spotted a small sword in a display cabinet among a number of medieval items. LiveScience reports that when Dall’Armellina spotted […]
More than 100 years before coronavirus, the Spanish Flu pandemic ravaged the globe
More than 100 years before the coronavirus outbreak, the world was ravaged by the Spanish Flu pandemic, which infected an estimated one-third of the global population. The epidemic that spread in 1918 and raged through 1919 was dubbed the Spanish Flu because of the early press reports about the disease that emerged in Spain. A neutral […]
2 wooden shipwrecks discovered on Florida beach
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. The wrecks of two wooden boats, one of which may be more than 100 years old, have been uncovered on a beach in northern Florida. In a Facebook post, the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Maritime Museum explained that the […]
Ancient Chinese noblewoman discovered buried with the donkeys she used for playing polo
An ancient Chinese noblewoman has been discovered buried in a grave with the donkeys she used for playing polo more than 1,000 years ago. The donkey bones were discovered in the tomb of Cui Shi, an Imperial noblewoman who died in 878 A.D. in Xi’an in northwestern China. Experts were surprised to find that “work animals” […]
Ancient Roman missile returned by repentant thief concerned about coronavirus ‘apocalypse’
A man has returned an ancient Roman projectile that he took from an ancient site in Jerusalem 15 years ago. The thief cited the current coronavirus outbreak and a feeling that “the end of the world is near,” according to the Israel Antiquities Authority. In ancient times, the 2,000-year-old stone was used as a missile […]
Long-lost Maya capital discovered in backyard in Mexico
Archaeologists have discovered the capital of a long-lost Maya kingdom in the backyard of a cattle rancher in Mexico. Experts from Brandeis University and Brown University were part of an international team that excavated the site, dubbed Lacanja Tzeltal, in Chiapas in southeastern Mexico. The site, which was settled in 750 B.C.E and occupied for 1,000 […]
Mysterious ancient Egyptian box containing goose egg may lead to Pharaoh’s tomb
An ancient stone chest and a mysterious ceramic box found at a burial site in Egypt may provide clues to the location of a royal tomb. Science in Poland reports that the 3,500-year-old stone chest, which contains a sacrificial goose, was found at Deir el-Bahri in Luxor. A faience, or ceramic box, with the name of […]
