“Salvator Mundi” sold for a record-breaking $450 million in 2017, but is it really as valuable as people were led to believe?
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The first of many dodecahedrons was unearthed almost three centuries ago, and we still don’t know what they were for.
Haunting photographs depict the dead as “still with us.”
There have been some 6,000 Great Lakes shipwrecks, which have claimed an estimated 30,000 lives. These maps show some of them.
We frequently say it’s 2.725 K: from the light left over all the way from the Big Bang. But that’s not all that’s in the Universe.
It didn’t look like anything I’d seen before, but I’d be a great fool to consider “aliens” as a reasonable possibility.
Some artifacts drown in shipwrecks, others are taken by the tide. Many others will vanish as a result of climate change and rising sea levels.
Despite a reputation for catastrophe and cat killings, curiosity is a beneficial drive that improves our lives and well-being.
Three out of four Russians accused of witchcraft were men.
The mummy was first thought to be a male priest. But a recent radiological analysis revealed a surprising anomaly.
As always, aDNA research raises as many questions as answers.
The underground burial tombs were used at least as far back as 2500 B.C.
This freshly unearthed image drastically alters the meaning of one of the artist’s most celebrated works.
Discovered in 1900, the Saint-Bélec slab languished unrecognized in a castle basement for over a century.
Galaxies can have regions both hotter and colder than the background radiation of the Universe. When we talk about the depths of space, we get this picture in our heads […]
When Saint Ambrose of Milan was venerated, his life became public property, its meaning expanding with the unique interpretations of each new generation.
From the Notre Dame to Buddhist statues, dozens of irreplaceable artifacts are destroyed every year by both man and nature.
The Swedish Academy honored the writer for his uncompromising inquiry into the lasting consequences of Africa’s colonization.
Released in 1972, “Ways of Seeing” has proven to be as worthy of study as the artistic traditions it investigates.
The thrills and horrors of strange heavenly bodies condensed into one attractive snapshot.
Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in science. But what are they? One of the major goals of science is to describe our reality as accurately as possible. […]
Exceptionally high-quality videos allow scientists to formally introduce a remarkable new comb jelly.
It’s all well and good to discuss how our humanity evolved – but what even is humanity?
And could Earth-based life provide the seeds for biology elsewhere? Today, on Earth, there’s an enormous variety and diversity of life on our planet. Every single surviving lifeform appears, in […]
The museum’s important call to document future history.
July 4th and New Years Eve are the most dangerous times for a hail of falling bullets from ‘celebratory gunfire.’ “What goes up, must come down,” is an old saying […]
A review of Matthew Engelke’s How to Think Like an Anthropologist.
In her book The Art of Rest, one researcher conducted a thorough analysis of the top 10 activities we find most restful.