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Ada Lovelace Wrote Software for a Machine That Was Never Built, and Was Right About What It Would Do
In 1843, Byron's daughter wrote the first computer program for a machine made of brass gears, a century before anyone built one.
A Cave Called 'Women' for Three Centuries Just Told Archaeologists Why
Deep inside a Valencian cave, 110 Latin inscriptions reveal a Roman goddess cult that women appear to have run themselves.
An X-ray in a Madrid studio found a man in black under the armour. It was a Velázquez the world had lost since the 1600s.
A restorer's X-ray in Madrid uncovered a lost 1626 Velázquez of Olivares, missing since a seventeenth-century Roman inventory and catalogued, until now, as workshop.
The great archive of French draughtsmanship was never in the Louvre. It was in 28 houses no one can name.
170 sheets from 28 anonymous lenders in Amiens. Three quarters have never been shown. The real cabinet of French drawing was never public.
At Karahan Tepe, someone carved a man riding a leopard eleven thousand years before the wheel
A newly unearthed statue at a Turkish Stone Age site shows a human astride a leopard, a scene archaeologists say has no known parallel.
New York bets $323.8 million on culture as Europe cuts back
Mamdani's budget hands the Department of Cultural Affairs a record $323.8 million, a nearly 7% rise. The distribution question stays open.
Yayoi Kusama Spent a Lifetime Turning Terror Into Dots, and the World Finally Caught Up
The artist who covered the world in polka dots to suppress childhood hallucinations died at 97, having become the top-selling female artist alive.
Two Men Walked Into a Vienna Museum as Visitors and Left as Thieves
Armed men smashed a display case at Vienna's MAK and stole a diamond necklace worth several hundred thousand euros, vanishing into the crowd of witnesses.
They Locked Her Toe and Cut Her Throat With a Sickle, and Still Weren't Sure She'd Stay Dead
A noblewoman buried in 17th-century Poland was padlocked, blade-throated and possibly gagged with a hidden object, all to stop her rising from the grave.
An algorithm just weighed in on a 340 year old argument about a horseman
For decades, experts split over how much of Rembrandt's Polish Rider is really his. Now an AI trained on his brushwork has entered the argument.
A Unesco World Heritage badge was supposed to be a gift. Some villages now want to give it back.
In Slovakia and Tanzania, communities are asking Unesco to remove them from its prestigious list, arguing the honour brought crowds, restrictions and displacement instead of protection.
A Toad That Never Moved Just Rewrote the Climate History of La Brea
A tiny fossil pulled from the tar in 1929 turns out to be a new Ice Age species, and it proves La Brea was once a wetland.
Thieves Took Ten Minutes to Empty Spain's Most Important Bronze Age Vault
The Treasure of Villena, one of Europe's finest Bronze Age gold hoards, was stolen from a Spanish museum in a raid that lasted only minutes.
Before Egypt Built Pyramids, Its Architects Were Already Solving Their Central Problem
Two 5,000-year-old tombs found near the Nile show builders tapering walls for stability centuries before Djoser's step pyramid existed.
A Peruvian geoglyph survived 1,500 years. It did not survive an eviction notice.
After authorities cleared illegal occupants from a pre-Hispanic site in Peru, the geoglyph itself was destroyed. The state arrived, then the heritage disappeared.