British Auxiliary Units were trained to sabotage the enemy in case of German invasion

The 15th-century edition of Hafez's "Divan" will be sold at Sotheby's next month

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Built nearly 4,700 years ago as a tomb for the pharaoh Djoser, the structure underwent more than a decade of on-and-off restorations

The Spanish Surrealist painted a series of 100 watercolors inspired by Dante's "Divine Comedy"

Two sites preserve around 50 footprints, a discovery that highlights the richness of prehistoric life on the island

The pint-sized institution, which opened last year, is filled with 1,000 feline-themed knickknacks that journeyed with their owners from Ukraine

After abdicating the British throne, Edward was appointed governor of the Bahamas, where he temporarily lived in a lavish home in Nassau

After four months of unexpected dimming, the red supergiant star has perked back up, and astronomers may have a new explanation for the fluke

At 5,000 years old, the weapon predates the era when humans first started using tin to make bronze

"This could be the oldest and longest-lived team ball game in the world," says one archaeologist

The new findings raises questions about the authenticity of a collection of texts known as the "post-2002" scrolls

After 85 years, officials plan to remove the old, undetonated bombs that were part of a 1935 plan to divert lava flow on Mauna Loa

Lead decontamination policies enacted in August are now in conflict with measures to prevent spread of COVID-19

Remarkable fossil hints at the traits birds evolved just before an asteroid wiped their nonavian dinosaur kin

Many teens have taken on the role, but not every Robin was a "boy" wonder

The marble slab appears to be Greek in origin and may have been written in response to the death of a tyrant on the island of Kos

Some sites have closed completely, while others are making modifications to promote social distancing

The pint-sized, mustachioed Gaul immortalized in the French cartoon has spawned films, a theme park and many other spin-offs

Titles related to "home-life" subjects—like preserving and canning—have also experienced a boost in sales

The exact molecule behind the Minamata mercury disaster, caused by a chemical plant’s wastewater, remains a point of disagreement

Precious data points logged on paper are in dire need of a hero. Could it be you?

The spacecraft Hayabusa2 hurled a four-pound copper ball toward the asteroid's surface at about 4,500 miles an hour to create an artificial crater

Despite the name, moon won’t have a rosy hue. The name alludes to flowers that bloom in April

Architects and designers restored royal ruins across Europe to their former glory

Over his five-decade-plus career, the "Strega Nona" author contributed to more than 270 books

Female dolphins, it seems, aren’t immune to the allure of a harmonizing boy band

Traces of lead pollution frozen in a glacier confirm that British lead production waned just before the death of Thomas Becket

A new study ties the ousting of women directors, actors, producers and screenwriters to the rise of entertainment studios

This is the story behind the breads you might be baking in lockdown

Researchers lifted the ancient Egyptian mummy out of her coffin for the first time in 100 years and, to their surprise, uncovered the ancient artworks

The planet's temperatures spike around the latitudes where auroras show up

The show ran for just five days before the London museum closed due to COVID-19

The art within Shing Yin Khor's virtual world represents a sassy response to the game's built-in natural history museum

The bidet-like suite of devices detects abnormalities in feces that could flag signs of certain cancers

Biologist Tagide deCarvalho created this award-winning image of the tardigrade using fluorescent stains

The children's book author and illustrator purchased the repurposed World War II vessel in 1967

Perhaps the cigar-shaped object is a shard from a shredded planetary body, a computer simulation suggests

This eruption is the longest since 2018 when the volcano caused a deadly tsunami

Doctors and nurses are attaching smiling photos of themselves to the outside of their protective gear to maintain connections with patients

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