In an effort to expand the field of experimental archaeology, Israeli scientists were eager to brew the beer of our ancestors in order to better understand our past.Israel Antiquities AuthorityUpon successfully brewing beer from thousands-year-old strains of yeast, the archaeologists, microbiologists, university researchers, and craft brewers celebrated with a drink. When Israeli scientists discovered yeast remnants in ancient clay shards across several archaeological sites in Israel, there appeared to be only one logical thing to do next: brew some seriously aged beer and mead.

One of only 10 of its kind ever found, this ancient stone marked the spiritual, military, and political boundary of the ancient city of Rome.Stefano Montesi/Corbis/Getty ImagesThe ancient stone at the Ara Pacis Museum on July 16, 2021, in Rome, Italy. Workers performing an excavation for the rerouting of a sewer system just discovered a rare stone marker that marked the city limits of ancient Rome. The discovery was made on June 17 and announced on July 16 at an unveiling at the Ara Pacis museum, near the site where the ancient slab was discovered.

Source: Alpha Coders Despise wearing fifteen layers and snow boots for three months out of the year? Try living in the northernmost part of the Earth. The Arctic is a polar region defined by midnight suns and polar nights, and encompasses the Arctic Ocean and parts of Alaska, Canada, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Russia and Sweden. It rarely gets above 50 °F in most of the region. The Arctic is a rich ecosystem with a variety of animal life that has adapted to its extreme conditions.

Convening the aesthetic wonder of art and the stupefying world of science, Fabian Oefner's "Liquid Jewels" are truly a wealth in the contemporary art world.Everywhere we look, we’re surrounded by color. The sea is blue, the grass is green and as evidenced by Nicki Minaj, hair can be any shade from crimson to copper. Fabian Oefner, a Swiss photographer, artist, and self-proclaimed investigator, likes to blur the lines between art and science using color.

New York City's skyline is as complex, diverse and changing as the population that inhabits its buildings day in and day out.Transitioning from a more bare landscape in the 1910s to a cosmopolitan model for the rest of the world via the 1930s race for the tallest skyscraper to its devastating destruction of the Twin Towers in the 2001, Lower Manhattan’s ever-evolving skyline reveals much about New York City’s history.

Nicholas Barclay went missing in 1994 and turned up three years later. But after being reunited with his family, not all was as it seemed.YouTubeNicholas Barclay as a young boy before his disappearance. Nicholas Barclay was a 13-year-old boy from Texas who went missing in 1994 after a basketball game with his friends at the neighborhood park. Frederic Bourdin was a 23-year-old man from France who had grown up in a home without love or affection and had taken to a life crime to keep himself afloat.

This week’s top stories: An art installation made of 3,000 condoms, outrageous Instagram accounts of dangerous Mexican drug lords, the badass French soldiers now heading into Syria, street art that only appears in the rain, and world-famous monuments lit up for Paris. Christ the Redeemer statue. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Image Source: The Atlantic The World’s Greatest Monuments Light Up For Paris Sydney Opera House. Sydney, Australia. Image Source: The Atlantic

Since the 1940s, reports about Men in Black have described them as government agents or shapeshifting aliens in disguise who threaten witnesses of extraterrestrial phenomena.On June 21, 1947, Harold Dahl and his son Charles were gathering logs near the eastern shore of Maury Island, Washington when Harold suddenly saw something strange in the sky above him. What looked like six donut-shaped objects were suddenly hovering roughly half a mile above his boat.

James Burke A.K.A. “Jimmy The Gent” Thomas Monaster/NY Daily News Archive/Getty ImagesJames Burke’s true story was one of the most memorable ones dramatized in Goodfellas. James Burke, played by Robert De Niro as “Jimmy Conway” in the film, was the principal architect of the Lufthansa heist. Soon after he was born — in 1931, to an Irish immigrant single mother in New York — Burke was placed into foster care and shifted from orphanages to foster homes and back throughout his childhood.

"Black Wall Street" was once the United States' wealthiest African-American neighborhood. But during the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, a white mob destroyed the whole thing in just one day.“Black Wall Street.” That was the nickname given to Greenwood, a one-square-mile neighborhood full of wealthy black families in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ever since the oil boom of the early 20th century, doctors, lawyers, and business-owners thrived in the affluent suburb — until the Tulsa Massacre of 1921, when their homes were burned to the ground.