The man who ran a carnival attraction that saved thousands of premature babies wasn’t a doctor at all
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Scientists built a canoe using only prehistoric tools. Then they sailed the dangerous 140-mile route early humans traveled 30,000 years ago.
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The shipwrecks from John Franklin’s doomed arctic expedition were exactly where the Inuit said they would be
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Ancient Roman wooden water pipe made from hollow tree trunks unearthed beneath a street in Belgium
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How a stuffed animal named Billy Possum tried—and failed—to replace the teddy bear as America’s national toy
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Five unusual ways people in different cultures used lead—and suffered for it
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Archaeologists discover stash of 1,500-year-old weapons – includes the only known Roman helmet ever found in Denmark
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How the rise of the camera launched a fight to protect Gilded Age Americans’ privacy
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Ramses II’s long-lost sarcophagus has finally been identified
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World War II ‘rumor clinics’ helped America battle wild gossip
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Early anthropologist Zelia Nuttall transformed the way we think of ancient Mesoamerica and the Aztecs
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Searching for Maura
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2,400-year-old baskets still filled with fruit found in submerged Egyptian city
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How an English exile ended up at the court of Genghis Khan's grandson
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"Abraham Lincoln" street in Nogales, Sonora
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The misunderstood Roman empress who willed her way to the top
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When did humans start settling down? In Israel, new discoveries at one of the world’s oldest villages are upending the debate about when we stopped wandering.
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An extraordinary 500-year-old shipwreck is rewriting the history of the age of discovery
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Hollywood loved Sammy Davis Jr. until he dated a white movie star
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Why footbinding persisted in China for a millennium
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Scientists stage sword fights to study Bronze Age warfare
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Treasure trove of artifacts illustrates life in a lost Viking mountain pass – Lendbreen, in Norway, was an important route from the Roman era until the late Middle Ages
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Archaeologists discover paintings of goddess in 3,000-year-old mummy's coffin
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Smithsonian Open Access - 2.8 million images and 3D models from the Institution's collections released into the public domain
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How this abandoned mining town in Greenland helped win World War II
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Female warrior long assumed to be a Viking may actually be a Slavic warrior woman who migrated to Denmark from present-day Poland
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Becoming Anne Frank - Why did we turn an isolated teenage girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim?
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Dirty dishes reveal what ancient civilizations ate. Food scraps on 8,000-year-old ceramic shards found in Turkey include barley, wheat, peas, and bitter vetch.
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