The Kaiser Steel Company in Fontana built a capsule slated to be opened in 2054, and the LA Public Library opened a 100-year-old capsule last year when the library celebrated its centennial.

Around 40,000 years ago, Paleolithic people inscribed bone with symbols that appear to be part of some sort of writing system ...

National Geographic archaeologist George E. Stuart reported in 1975 on the scientists who sought to decode the ancient language—and the looters who stood in their way.

In January, while examining ancient texts at Italy’s National Central Library of Florence, historian Ivan Malara found an ...

In geological layers around the world (particularly in the southwestern U.S.) roughly one billion years of rock are missing—a mystery known as the “Great Unconformity." ...

February is Black History Month, and I always like to take a moment to write about Black authors and creators and how their work and their stories are shaping modern literature of the past and the ...

The administration’s recent directive to the National Park Service to “sanitize” the history of Medgar Evers’ assassination is a chilling act of historical revisionism. Reports that visitor materials ...

During World War II, U.S. soldier Joseph “Jerry” Brenner received a letter from his wife, Norma, adorned with a lipstick smudge of a kiss. (Library of Congress Veterans History Project) On June 12, ...

Molly Rosner, of Manhattan, has been learning about her grandparents and sharing their story as she pores over nearly 500 of their letters to each other from World War II. Welcome to the ‘E-shaped’ ...

A book is shining a light on the early years of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's marriage — which took place as Arnaz was serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. The letters the couple wrote one ...

I was driving past the Federal Building in Eugene to a restaurant and was not aware that ICE agents were going to spray tear gas into the night to deter protesters standing against ICE and their ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Highlights from a trove of more than 200 love letters that tell the story of a couple's courtship and marriage during World War II are now on display digitally through the ...