Ernest Shackleton: Famed explorer's Endurance ship gets extra protection
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Goldfish memories - most of China’s early websites have disappeared
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How the internet revived the world's first work of interactive fiction
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Britain’s vast network of abandoned nuclear bunkers | Cold War UK
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Historic covered bridges in the US are under threat by truck drivers relying on GPS meant for cars
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A university librarian asks: How do we rescue the past?
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Battle to save pristine prehistoric rock art from vast new quarry in Norway – archaeologists fear more than 2,000 carved figures could be destroyed
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Wasabi could help preserve ancient Egyptian papyrus artefacts
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History in ink: Preserving the world’s largest cartoon and comic collection
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Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue
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In Indonesia, humanity’s oldest art is flaking away. Can scientists save it?
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As the earth warms, glacial archaeologists in Norway are in a race against time to preserve objects before they are destroyed by the elements
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Long barrows are Neolithic constructions that might have been churches, or graveyards, or landmarks. And some are being built again: for the first time in recorded history.
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It's a Baltic problem – objects are vanishing from historic wrecks as sport divers and criminal gangs loot well-preserved sunken ships
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Near Dayton, Ohio there's a lookalike of the Wright Brothers' Model B, a 1910 aircraft with no cockpit. It's a modern plane with a very old design, and I went for a ride.
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Pompeii still has buried secrets - The first major excavations in decades shed light on how ordinary citizens shopped and snacked—and where slaves slept
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To break a book: Bibliophiles as book enemies
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Decolonizing Idaho’s road signs - A new effort will add Indigenous history to historical markers across the state
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The smell of old books could actually help experts preserve them
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Sixty years since rising from the deep – Swedish warship Vasa's preservation still a major challenge
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