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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 stench of death is actually fairly pleasant.
Meanwhile meteorite hunters rushed to Berlin to find this most rare space rock.
The artifacts were often made from found objects – an Ivory dish-soap bottle transformed into an earthenware figure.
The true story of the shot that “reverberated through England” when science collided head-on with religion.
A 1.5-million-year-old hominin bone shows signs that the victim was eaten by lions — and humans.
A small Ohio town tried to escape America’s addiction to rectangular grids. It didn’t last long.
You’ve certainly seen the paintings — but they don’t depict what you think they do. Benjamin Moser discusses with Big Think.
Archaeologist Bernard Frischer spent decades uploading the ruins of the Eternal City to the cloud. Here’s what it looks like.
A conservator from the Rijksmuseum explains how they went about investigating whether the painting is a genuine Rembrandt.
Burns’ latest documentary dives into the long-romanticized life and work of the Italian polymath.
An analysis of Indonesian cave paintings is reframing the history of human art, though whether the paintings really were created by human hands remains an open question.
Is a repressed memory always so bad?
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.
Destruction of the Ukrainian dam unleashed a catastrophic flood—and surfaced centuries of cultural heritage. Now there’s a call not to rebuild it.
The strange case of cultured ultra-thief Stéphane Breitwieser — who claims “art is my drug” — has divided opinion. Is it Stendhal syndrome?
There may be a symmetrical interdependence between order and chaos.
The “first-of-its-kind” archeological find is being reburied despite the fact that researchers haven’t finished studying it.
Studying neuroscience through art.
At the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society in Michigan, retrieving sunken vessels is the order of the day. Here’s how they do it.
Former spacewalker Mike Massimino tells Big Think how NASA missions shaped great leaders.
Modernism has lasted longer than any art movement since the Renaissance.
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.
They have held our fascination ever since we first identified their remains.
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?