Jerry WelchNotre-Dame de Paris How Notre Dame is being rebuilt from 50 billion scraps of dataWired UK - Pauline Bock On 15 April 2019, Notre Dame de Paris, the monumental cathedral in the heart of the French capital, lost its roof to a fire. Flames destroyed Notre …
Jerry WelchRoman Empire Rubbish found in ancient Roman aqueduct near Trevi Fountain highlights Rome's waste collection crisisThe Telegraph - By Nick SquiresIt is hardly in keeping with Rome’s image as the city of “la dolce vita”. The Italian capital’s rubbish crisis reached rock bottom this week with the revelation that industrial waste had been dumped in
Jerry WelchAztec Empire Mexico City’s secret underground worldBBC Travel - By Susannah RiggHidden mere metres under the modern capital, a series of temples, palaces and mysterious artefacts from an ancient kingdom are being unearthed. As we descended 7m below Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral,
Jerry WelchGeorge Smith Discovering Gilgamesh, the World’s First Action HeroNational Geographic - Francisco del Rio SanchezA self-taught scholar was responsible for finding the world’s first epic myth hidden among broken clay tablets in the British Museum. Recovered from Nineveh in the late 19th century, shattered clay tablets
Jerry WelchScience (India) This Is What People From The Indus Valley Civilization May Have Looked LikeMashable - Afiya QureshiThe Indus Valley Civilization is one of the earliest civilizations on Earth, dating back 8,000 years. The archaeological remains from the extinct society are scattered across a vast geography spanning
Jerry WelchWonders of the World Standing Tall: Egypt’s Great PyramidsNational Geographic - José Miguel ParraPharaohs Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure built their massive tombs to last. For more than 4,000 years, the Pyramids of Giza continue to amaze while holding on to their many secrets. This story appears in January/February
Jerry WelchRobert E. Lee American Experiencepbs.org No man proved a more worthy opponent to Ulysses S. Grant than Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Lee was born the fourth child of Colonel Henry Lee …
Jerry WelchWalt Disney Company 8 Times Walt Disney World And Disneyland Attractions Went Really Wrongcinemablend.com - Dirk Libbey What in the world is more fun than visiting a major theme park like Disneyland or Walt Disney World? They have fun and exciting rides, great food, …
Jerry WelchJapan A lost chapter of the world's first novel has been discovered in JapanCNN - By Elizabeth Wolfe and Brian Ries, CNN(CNN) — For years, a long-lost chapter of what is said to be the world's first known novel has been quietly tucked away in a chest in a Japanese storeroom, hiding alongside other heirlooms of a Japanese
Jerry WelchScience Ancient Teeth Reveal Social Stratification Dates Back to Bronze Age Societiesscientificamerican.com - Bret Stetka In ancient Rome, the wealthy patricians ran the empire. The second-class plebeians worked the farms, baked the bread and built the walls. The rest of …
Jerry WelchHistory Blood brothers: Richard III's battle with his siblingshistoryextra.com - HistoryExtraAdmin The three siblings Edward IV, George, Duke of Clarence and the future Richard III were meant to be on the same side in the Wars of the Roses. Yet the …
Jerry WelchHistory The Puzzles of Thermopylaehistorytoday.com - Chris Carey The story of 300 Greeks withstanding the might of Persia at the Thermopylae pass is well known. But how accurate is it? And, with few sources, how …
Jerry WelchObituaries Aleksei Leonov, First to Walk in Space, Dies at 85The New York Times - Richard GoldsteinThis article has been revised to reflect the following correction: An earlier version of this obituary misstated how much time Mr. Leonov and his fellow cosmonauts spent inside their spacecraft while to
Jerry WelchCulture Why Renaissance Paintings Aren’t as Green as They Used to BeAtlas Obscura - Sabrina Imbler The Italian late-Renaissance painter Angelo Bronzino spent two years on his 1591 painting “Noli me tangere,” or “Christ the gardener.” The …
Jerry WelchPompeii Archeologists find fresco of battling, bloodied gladiators in 2,000-year-old tavern in PompeiiThe Telegraph - By Nick SquiresA spectacular fresco depicting blood-soaked gladiators in combat has been found in the remains of a Pompeii tavern where the hardened fighters of the Roman Empire would have drunk wine and solicited prostitutes.
Jerry WelchMykonos When the Turks Invaded The Greek Island of Mykonosgreekreporter.com - Philip Chrysopoulos It was October 11, 1822, in the second year of Greece’s War of Independence, when the Ottomans, attempting to invade the island of Mykonos, were …
Jerry WelchAnthropocene What Made Me Reconsider the AnthropoceneThe Atlantic - Peter BrannenWhether our civilization is transient or not, its effects on the living world will last forever. Looming over the new food court of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History is one of those creatures
Jerry WelchScience Giant reptiles once ruled Australia. Their loss sparked an ecological disastersciencemag.org - John Pickrell BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA—Saber-toothed cats, short-faced bears, and other ferocious mammals were the top predators of the ice age across most of the …
Jerry WelchScience Ancient humans stored bone marrow in earliest example of preserved foodsciencefocus.com - Sara Rigby Researchers have found evidence that humans living in Qesem Cave in Israel between 420,000 and 200,000 years ago stored long bones to eat later. While …
Jerry WelchHistory Prehistoric Downton Abbey: Bronze Age Germans Had Earliest Known Household Staffhaaretz.com - Ruth Schuster Debunking yet another misconception about the development of civilization, archaeologists have found evidence that equality within the home did not …
Jerry WelchRock Music Was 1969 the best year for rock? 25 classic albums that turn 50 this yearUSA TODAY - Maeve McDermottFifty years ago, rock 'n' roll had, definitively, its greatest year, featuring a landmark run of debut albums and artistic achievements that make 1969 an unrivaled mini-era in the genre's history. It a
Jerry WelchBridges Da Vinci's Forgotten Design for the Longest Bridge in the World Proves What a Genius He WasLive Science - Yasemin Saplakoglu Leonardo da Vinci was truly a Renaissance man, impressing both his contemporaries and modern observers with his intricate designs that spanned many …
Jerry WelchDavid Gilmour David Gilmour Makes His Live at Pompeii Concert Film Free to Watch Onlineopenculture.com - by Ted Mills On a hot October day in 1971, Pink Floyd and their crew assembled their live gear in an empty ancient Pompeii amphitheater and, with a film crew …
Jerry WelchLeonardo Da Vinci MIT Confirms a Bridge Leonardo da Vinci Designed 500 Years Ago Was an Ancient Engineering MarvelGizmodo Some 500 years after his death, researchers are still discovering just how talented and brilliant Leonardo da Vinci was. Architects and civil …
Jerry WelchHistory 7 controversial saints in historyhistoryextra.com - Rachel Dinning The 19th-century religious scholar and esteemed poet Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801–90) will on Sunday be declared a saint by Pope Francis. A …
Jerry WelchEvolution Animated Timeline of Human Evolution Showing How Fossils Are Used to Learn About Extinct Human Originslaughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn The American Museum of Natural History has put together a fascinating animated timeline graphic that shows how scientists are using fossils to learn …
Jerry WelchDinosaurs Newly Discovered Dinosaur Was a Giant ‘Shark Tooth’ Carnivoresmithsonianmag.com - Riley Black Tyrannosaurs are often seen as the kings of the prehistoric world. They’re among the largest and most charismatic of giant predators to stalk the …
Jerry WelchCulture The mysterious ancient figure challenging China’s historyBBC Culture - By Alastair SookeA spectacular jade carving may hold the clue to an early society that predates what many historians believed to be China’s oldest, writes Alastair Sooke. A grimacing figure wearing an elaborate feathered
Jerry WelchDinosaurs Huge new 'shark toothed' dinosaur foundNational Geographic - Michael GreshkoDating back more than 113 million years, the fossils belong to "one of the most important Thai dinosaurs ever found," paleontologists say. Today, the land near Ban Saphan Hin in central Thailand is dusted
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