Ancient Shard of Bone Said to Be From St Valentine's Finger On Display at Medieval Church
In the church of St John the Baptist in Coventry, England, romantics over Valentine's Day weekend have been flocking to see actual finger of St. Valentine.
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Diego Rivera's Dream of a 'City of Arts' in Mexico Turns to Reality 80 Years Later
Totaling 14 buildings, Frida Kahlo's mentor Diego Rivera imagined a utopian City of Art that has been built 65 years after his death.
NASA Launches James Webb Telescope to See First Galaxies and Distant Worlds With its Giant Sunshield
NASA, on December 25, successfully launched the James Webb telescope to explore distant worlds in space. Here's that story.
Scientists Digitally 'Unwrap' Pharaoh Amenhotep Mummy, While Leaving 3,000 Year-old Artifact Untouched
A new study, published in Frontiers, shows a digitally unwrapped Pharaoh Amenhotep. Take a look at the images from Cairo University here.
Extraordinary Roman Mosaic and Villa Discovered Beneath British Farmer's Field
Archaeologists at the University of Leicester in England have unearthed the first Roman mosaic of its kind in the UK.
65 Cats Are Treated Like Favored Guests at the World Renown Hermitage Museum in Russia
Under Russia's Hermitage museum 65 cats live as full-time guards against invasive rodents, but they're also part of the buildings rich story.
Solstice Sunbeam Through Stained Glass Window of Neolithic Burial Room Creates Mesmerizing Rainbow Cloud
Incredible photos show a beam of the setting sun through a stained glass window at a Neolithic burial barrow creating a mesmerizing rainbow.
English Teenager Discovers Hoard of 3,300 Year-Old Axes and Becomes Metal Detecting Celebrity
A 13-year old with a metal detector has discovered 65 bronze axes and other objects that date to 1,300 BCE, and has become a bit famous.
Check Out These Solstice Webcams Capturing Today's Winter Celestial Event Live at Ancient Monoliths
At Neolithic sites across Great Britain and Ireland, the Winter Solstice is a spectacular event which is being livestreamed.
Surviving the Nazis and Fire, 2000-Year-old Caligula Mosaic Finally Returns to Museum
After 90 years, a lost Roman mosaic that escaped a museum fire before being sold as a coffee table in the 1960s in NYC, has returned home.
Incredible Cave Paintings 8 Miles-Long Revealed Deep in Amazon Forest: The Sistine Chapel of Ancients
An 8-mile long wall of over 10,000 cave paintings was discoverd in Colombia, and is being dubbed the Sistine Chapel of the Ancients.
Soldier's Letter Details WWI Christmas Day Truce 100 Yrs Ago
"Dearest mother, I have seen one of the most extraordinary sights..." So begins a letter from a WWI soldier in 1914 who witnessed the 2-day Christmas Truce. The letter just published confirms a Christmas Day football match 100 years ago today, between warring sides, England and Germany, as seen through the eyes of a soldier for the first time.
Scrap Dealer Finds Missing $20 Million Faberge Egg
When a scrap metal dealer from U.S. Midwest bought a golden ornament at a junk market, it never crossed his mind that he was the owner of a $20 million Faberge egg hailing from the court of imperial Russia.
Couple Stumbles Upon $10 million in Buried Old Coins
During the California gold rush of the 1800's, what did people do with their treasure when banks were rare, and sometimes untrustworthy? They buried it. Now a middle-aged couple has staked a claim to part of the state's legendary gold treasure after walking the dog on their rural property in Northern California and noticing a buried can jutting out of the ground near a tree.
450 Years Old: Why Shakespeare Lives On
The question might come up this month, as we reach the 450th anniversary of the Bard of Avon's birth, What's so great about William Shakespeare anyway? The answer is simple. Everything.
Pack Your Bags: Free Admission This Week For All National Parks
Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Badlands, and Gettysburg: all of these parks, and hundreds more will have free admission for National Parks Week in April.
From Waterboy to War Hero, a Veterans Day Story
Ben Overstreet badly wanted to play football, but when he started his senior year at Gulf High School in 1949, he stood 5-feet-5 and weighed 105 pounds. He became the equipment manager and water boy. His heroic journey came later, after joining the Air Force and flying missions over Vietnam.
World Record Message in Bottle Found After 98 Years
A Scottish skipper has set a new world record after finding a message in a bottle 98 years after it was released. Not only that, he found the bottle while skippering the same fishing boat which had set the previous record, the Shetland-based vessel Copious.
Possible da Vinci Painting Found in Scottish Farmhouse; Could be Worth $150 million
An old painting, which shows a woman embracing a young child, was nearly thrown out on several occasions, but Fiona McLaren, 59, from Scotland decided to seek an appraisal recently after financial difficulties forced her to look for new resources. Auctioneer Harry Robertson, the director of Sotheby's in Scotland, gasped when he saw the artwork which had been given to her father by one of his patients.
The Sailor who Single-Handedly Saved His Ship During the Pearl Harbor Attack
This year marked the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, a US Navy base, and a day that will live in infamy. It is augustly remembered by Roger Hare as the day his father survived, along with many of his shipmates aboard the badly torpedoed USS West Virginia, because of the quick-thinking actions of a single sailor named Sylvester Puccio. And Hare wants everyone to hear the story.
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