A survivor house In Chicago, built In 1888
Once a part of a series of row houses that were completed soon after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, today 154 W. Superior is the lone survivor, surrounded by towering high-rise buildings.
The majority of Britain’s mosaic masterpieces have been lost to the ages, but those that remain are absolutely stunning. When Pablo Picᴀsso commented that “art is not…
Here stands a street within Pompeii, Italy, frozen in time since the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. What was once a thriving Roman city,…
So well preserved “it almost still shines” is what archaeologists have termed the incredible find of a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age sword found in the town of Nördlingen,…
Nearly 1,000 artifacts including coins and ornate pottery from the Ming Dynasty have been salvaged from two discovered shipwrecks. Nearly 1,000 cultural relics have been recovered from…
Emerging from the golden sandstone of the Caribbean earth, this figure holds more than form—it holds memory. Carved between the 10th and 15th centuries, when the Taíno…
In the shadow of Vesuvius, where the ash fell like fatal snow, a humble eatery still serves its ghosts. The thermopolium of Pompeii—part tavern, part street stall,…