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How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome: A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals an Ancient Tax Evasion Scheme

A Forgotten 16th-Century Manuscript Reveals the First Designs for Modern Rockets

The Ark Before Noah: Discover the Ancient Flood Myths That Came Before the Bible

What Was Smoot-Hawley, and Why Are We Doing It Again? Anyone? Anyone?

How Chinese Characters Work: The Evolution of a Three-Millennia-Old Writing System

Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3,400 Years Ago

The Medieval Manuscript That Features “Yoda”, Killer Snails, Savage Rabbits & More: Discover The Smithfield Decretals

Aqua Is Back, Baby: Run Early Mac OS X Right in Your Browser

Think you know what a 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 is? How about a 𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦? A 𝘱𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦? What’s the difference, and why does Python care? Click to Read about how indentation, line breaks, and NEWLINE tokens shape your code.

Who Really Built the Egyptian Pyramids—And How Did They Do It?

How Italy Became the Most Divided Country in Europe: Understanding the Great Divide Between North & South

Why the Romans Stopped Reading Books

In 1927, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Created a Dystopian Vision of What the World Would Look Like in 2026–and It Hits Close to Home

The Only Illustrated Manuscript of Homer’s Iliad from Antiquity

Did the Tower of Babel Actually Exist?: A Look at the Archaeological Evidence

Superman vs. the KKK: Hear the 1946 Superman Radio Show That Weakened the Klan

The Best Photographer You’ve Never Heard Of: An Introduction to Tseng Kwong Chi

When Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Pastor, Theorized How Stupidity Enabled the Rise of the Nazis (1942)

When The Twilight Zone Imagined Fascism in America in a 1963 Episode Starring Dennis Hopper

Every Hidden Detail of New York’s Classic Skyscrapers: The Chrysler, Empire State & Woolworth Buildings

An Introduction to The Garden of Earthly Delights & Hieronymus Bosch’s Wildly Creative Vision

NYU Professor Answers Your Burning Questions About Authoritarianism

A Tour of Ancient Rome’s Best Graffiti: “We Have Urinated in Our Beds … There Was No Chamber Pot” & More

The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism

Watch the Only Time Charlie Chaplin & Buster Keaton Performed Together On-Screen (1952)

When Salvador Dalí Created a Chilling Anti-Venereal Disease Poster During World War II

Mapping History with Code: Digitizing the Île de la Cité

Первый в мире программист, её непростая жизнь, и при чём тут Лермонтов?

When Charlie Chaplin First Spoke Onscreen: How His Famous Great Dictator Speech Came About

Historian Answers Burning Questions About The Renaissance

How the Nazis Waged War on Modern Art: Inside the “Degenerate Art” Exhibition of 1937

The Hidden Truth About ELIZA the Tech World Doesn’t Want You to Know

What Makes Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas One of the Most Fascinating Paintings in Art History

The Architectural History of the Louvre: 800 Years in Three Minutes

Optical Poems by Oskar Fischinger: Discover the Avant-Garde Animator Despised by Hitler & Dissed by Disney

Peer to Peer AI: Is This Era Upon Us?

Why Are the Names of British Towns & Cities So Hard to Pronounce?: A Humorous But Informative Primer

How the Fairlight CMI Synthesizer Revolutionized Music

What It Was Like to Get a Meal at a Medieval Tavern

Tracing English Back to Its Oldest Known Ancestor: An Introduction to Proto-Indo-European

What Is The Oldest C Code We Can Compile Today?

Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Who Was the Greatest Scientific Mind in History

How Japanese Masters Turn Sand Into Swords: The Art of Traditional Sword Making from Start to Finish

How Wearing Ridiculously Long Pointed Shoes Became a Medieval Fashion Trend

Explore a Digitized Edition of the Voynich Manuscript, “the World’s Most Mysterious Book”

Mahatma Gandhi’s List of the Seven Social Sins; or Tips on How to Avoid Living the Bad Life

How Frank Lloyd Wright Became Frank Lloyd Wright: A Video Introduction

When Neapolitans Used to Eat Pasta with Their Bare Hands: Watch Footage from 1903

How Erik Satie’s ‘Furniture Music’ Was Designed to Be Ignored and Paved the Way for Ambient Music

The Oldest Beer Receipt (Circa 2050 BC)

Watch Design for Disaster, a 1962 Film That Shows Why Los Angeles Is Always at Risk of Devastating Fires

A long-awaited talk

Watch Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur, and Witness the Birth of Modern Animation (1911–1914)

Discover the Playful Drawings That Charles Darwin’s Children Left on His Manuscripts

Everything You Need to Know About Saturday Night Live: A Deep Dive into Every Season of the Iconic Comedy Show

Here Are 8 Life Hacking Lessons From John D. Rockefeller, The Richest Man Ever

In 1894, A French Writer Predicted the End of Books & the Rise of Portable Audiobooks and Podcasts

How Marcel Marceau Used Mime to Save Children During the Holocaust

Explore the Newly-Launched Public Domain Image Archive with 10,000+ Free Historical Images

Compare the “It Ain’t Me Babe” Scene from A Complete Unknown to the Real Bob Dylan & Joan Baez Performance at the Newport Folk Festival