When the skull of the Solør Viking Woman was first excavated in 1900, it went into storage as another ancient burial; a century later, forensic scans revealed something the original excavators could not have seen. It found evidence that the slash across her forehead had begun to heal, meaning this teenager survived the blow and … Read more
You’ve seen the photograph a hundred times: the gold mask, the black eyes, the striped headdress. What you probably haven’t been told is that the tomb on the other side of that doorway is, by pharaonic standards, oddly small. Four cramped rooms in a corner of the Valley of the Kings, hurriedly decorated and painted … Read more
Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, took off from Lae, New Guinea, on July 2, 1937, aiming for a speck of coral called Howland Island in the middle of the Pacific, but never arrived. The US Navy searched an area the size of Texas and found nothing. So why, 89 years later, is a … Read more