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To understand Vincent van Gogh, we must first debunk the myth of the tortured artist. Van Gogh believed his illness inhibited his creativity.
Nearly 2000 years ago, Mt. Vesuvius erupted, burying Pompeii but incinerating Herculaneum. The most lethal volcanic phenomenon is at fault.
Zombies aren't a modern-day obsession. Throughout history, fear of the undead led to bizarre burial rituals all over the world.
His plan to replace it with homegrown rice did not go well.
She apparently learned some valuable business skills as a former prostitute.
In order to figure out how English might evolve in the future, we have to look at how it has changed in the near and distant past.
The cathedral is being explored as never before.
A new discovery pushes back the origin of these technologies by about 40,000 years.
From grave robbing to giving your own body to science.
How can you fit a camel through a needle?
Worldwide, 15% of children are born out of wedlock, but the figure varies from less than 1% in places like China to 69% in Iceland.
Many impact craters on Earth have been erased thanks to wind, water, and plate tectonics. But scientists have clever ways to find them.
Queen Calafia seems like she could have sprung from the pages of a modern fantasy novel.
Not even Einstein immediately knew the power of the equations he gave us.
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why they died.
A non-invasive method for looking inside structures is solving mysteries about the ancient pyramid.
The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
The Church of England is debating if believers should stop using gendered language when talking about God.
Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.
From the Palace of the Soviets to The Illinois, these unmade buildings would have taken the art of architecture to whole new heights.
In 1934, American Communists translated a Stalinist book about revolution into a children’s game. Curiously, it didn't catch on.
In the West, discussions of 20th-century painting are dominated by Warhol and Picasso, but trendsetting artists are found everywhere.
Was it the enormous magnitude of the quake, or is the problem with the buildings?
A wide-scale examination of early Neolithic human skeletons reveals the violent history of a supposedly peaceful period.
Could the prevalence of flood myths around the world tell us something about early human migration or even the way our brains work?
Lawmen and outlaws were often the same people.
Most philosophers merely contemplate the world, but what about the ones who actually tried to change it?
Ancient humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia into North America. But some of them went back.
X marks the spot. The Dutch town of Ommeren has been swamped by detectorists armed with shovels looking for $20-million treasure.
What we've learning from the world’s coldest, most forbidding, and most peaceful continent.