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Get ready for the most peculiar road trip that will help you understand the vastness and emptiness of the solar system — and Sweden.
In war zones, aggressors steal art to eradicate the cultural heritage of others. Victims, meanwhile, sell stolen art in order to survive.
The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
The artifacts were often made from found objects – an Ivory dish-soap bottle transformed into an earthenware figure.
The stench of death is actually fairly pleasant.
Meanwhile meteorite hunters rushed to Berlin to find this most rare space rock.
A 1.5-million-year-old hominin bone shows signs that the victim was eaten by lions — and humans.
A conservator from the Rijksmuseum explains how they went about investigating whether the painting is a genuine Rembrandt.
You've certainly seen the paintings — but they don't depict what you think they do. Benjamin Moser discusses with Big Think.
A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.
Archaeologist Bernard Frischer spent decades uploading the ruins of the Eternal City to the cloud. Here’s what it looks like.
500 sheep were slaughtered to produce the 2,060 pages of the "Codex Amiatinus," a Latin translation of the Bible.
In the West, discussions of 20th-century painting are dominated by Warhol and Picasso, but trendsetting artists are found everywhere.
At the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society in Michigan, retrieving sunken vessels is the order of the day. Here’s how they do it.
The “first-of-its-kind” archeological find is being reburied despite the fact that researchers haven’t finished studying it.
Destruction of the Ukrainian dam unleashed a catastrophic flood—and surfaced centuries of cultural heritage. Now there’s a call not to rebuild it.
There may be a symmetrical interdependence between order and chaos.
Studying neuroscience through art.
The strange case of cultured ultra-thief Stéphane Breitwieser — who claims “art is my drug” — has divided opinion. Is it Stendhal syndrome?
People who visit Florence seem strangely susceptible to Stendhal syndrome, which is blamed on an overwhelming sense of awe.
An elaborate device called the Mechanical Turk defeated Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte at chess. Edgar Allan Poe revealed the hoax.
Modernism has lasted longer than any art movement since the Renaissance.
The first of many dodecahedrons was unearthed almost three centuries ago, and we still don't know what they were for.
On the morning of June 30, 1908, an explosion of more than 10 megatons occurred above the sparsely populated Siberian Taiga. What caused the so-called Tunguska event?
Japan just opened to tourists for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, echoing the island country’s isolationist policies during the feudal era.
Former spacewalker Mike Massimino tells Big Think how NASA missions shaped great leaders.
Haunting photographs depict the dead as "still with us."
"Salvator Mundi" sold for a record-breaking $450 million in 2017, but is it really as valuable as people were led to believe?
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.