Tag: History

Magazine - Life & Arts

Diplomat for the disappeared

Sean Durns · December 31, 2021 4:00 am

Magazine - Life & Arts

What the Constitution says

Kyle Sammin · December 31, 2021 4:00 am

The lead conservator for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, Kate Ridgway, in black, works with other conservators on a box believed to be a time capsule left in the pedestal at the former site of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021.

Historians open second time capsule from beneath Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond

Asher Notheis · December 28, 2021 10:20 pm

The Mummy of Tamut, a temple singer around 900 BC, is shown during a press conference at the British Museum in London, Wednesday April 9, 2014. Scientists at the British Museum have used CT scans and volume graphics software to go beneath the bandages, revealing the skin, bones, internal organs, and in one case a brain-scooping rod left inside a skull by embalmers. The results are going on display in an exhibition which sets eight of the museum's mummies alongside detailed 3-D images of their insides. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Egyptian pharaoh’s mummy unwrapped ‘digitally’ for first time

Christopher Hutton · December 28, 2021 2:27 pm

This Tuesday June 27, 2017 photo shows the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee that stands in the middle of a traffic circle on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va. The French artist's statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee arrived by train in Richmond in 1890, thousands helped haul the enormous pieces to what is today the city's grandest boulevard. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Second time capsule found beneath pedestal of Robert E. Lee statue

Asher Notheis · December 28, 2021 4:24 am

Russian court extends prison term for historian who uncovered mass graves of Stalin victims

Misty Severi · December 27, 2021 4:28 pm

Conservator for Special Collections from the University of Virginia Sue Donovan, removes paper from a photograph that was removed from a time capsule that was removed from the pedestal that once held the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue.

Historians open time capsule in Robert E. Lee statue pedestal and find unexpected artifacts

Misty Severi · December 23, 2021 12:04 am

A Roman gold ring, its green gemstone carved with the figure of a shepherd carrying a sheep on his shoulders, dating to around 1,700 years ago, is displayed after it was found near the ancient city of Caesarea.

Ancient Christian ring found off Israeli coast

Virginia Aabram · December 22, 2021 7:52 pm

Magazine - Features

Conservatives we lost in 2021

Tevi Troy · December 17, 2021 4:00 am

Magazine - Life & Arts

Fish Out of Water

Grant Addison · December 17, 2021 4:00 am

Magazine - Life & Arts

The Churchill sisters stake their own claim

Daniel Ross Goodman · December 17, 2021 4:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Relationship Geometry

Hugo Gurdon · December 17, 2021 4:00 am