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October 30, 2018

This Jewel Box at Yale Is America’s Largest Building Dedicated to Rare Books

One of the largest buildings in America dedicated to rare books and manuscripts, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is a jewel box filled with history. Located on Yale University's campus in New Haven, Connecticut, the Beinecke can hold 180,000 volumes in its central tower and more than one million volumes in its underground book stacks.

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October 15, 2018

Fascinating Map From 1942 Features Oceans as the Main Focus of the World

When you imagine a world map, what do you see?

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October 8, 2018

Take a Virtual Tour of Every Inch of the New York Public Library’s Incredible Interior

If you love the New York Public Library as much as we do, you'll enjoy this detailed tour of the...

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October 4, 2018

This 1,400-Pound Device Was the World’s Largest Camera in 1900

To understand just how far photography technology has developed over the past 100 years, take a look at the incredibly large camera used to photograph a train in 1900. As the history of the camera tells us, it wasn't always so easy to go out and document things we now take for granted.

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September 11, 2018

This Golden ‘Peacock Room’ Is a Masterpiece Transported Across the Ocean

Imagine a room so special that it was dismantled, packed into 27 crates, and floated across the ocean.

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August 22, 2018

Man Discovers 100-Year-Old Negatives, Uses Photoshop to “Develop” Them

Using a combination of old-fashioned know-how and technology, a man from the UK was able to bring 100-year-old negatives to...

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August 21, 2018

This 4,000-Year-Old Tablet Could Be the World’s Oldest Customer Service Complaint

This Babylonian tablet from 1750 BC goes to show that customer service and client/vendor disputes were happening well before shopping malls and Amazon. The clay tablet comes from the ancient city of Ur, now part of southern Iraq, and is part of the British Museum‘s collection. Though it's just 4.5 inches (11.6 cm) tall and about 2 inches (5 cm) wide, the complaint is rather detailed.

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August 9, 2018

How a Volcanic Eruption Preserved the Ancient Roman City of Pompeii

The ancient city of Pompeii, Rome, is one of the most fascinating archaeological sites in the world.

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August 8, 2018

Exquisitely Designed 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shoe Discovered in a Well

We all know the ancient Romans were skilled engineers, constructing vast highways to cover the enormous lands they conquered.

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August 6, 2018

Japanese Archaeologists Dig Up Jar Filled With Over 200,000 Bronze Coins

Archaeology is like a treasure hunt where the prizes are pieces of information from the past, and Japanese archaeologists recently hit the jackpot. They discovered a jar filled with coins belonging to a medieval samurai. The ceramic jar was found in the Saitama Prefecture north of Tokyo and is one of the largest hauls of medieval coins discovered in the country.

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