How Tyrus Wong Spent 106 Years Making the World More Beautiful
Tyrus Wong arrived in San Francisco from China in 1920 as a 10-year-old who loved calligraphy. By the end of the next decade, he was working for Disney, on his…
The Long History of Art Inspired by Solar Eclipses
Elissaveta M. Brandon Contributing Writer Drivers in Dallas earlier this year may have noticed a curious trio of billboards on the side of Highway 67. Instead of advertising for the…
Ancient Iberians Ingested Red Dust Loaded With Mind-Altering Mercury
Bridget Alex Contributing Writer Five thousand years ago, in what’s now southern Spain, a special set of women donned their ceremonial gowns, bedecked with tens of thousands of beads crafted…
The Globe-Trotting Scholar Who Unlocked the Secrets of the Aztecs
By Merilee Grindle Author, In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations On a bright day early in 1885, Zelia Nuttall was strolling around…
Tracking Humans’ First Footsteps in North America
Ancient human footprints, preserved in a dry lakebed at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, reveal remarkably vivid vignettes of life in the late Pleistocene: children jumping in puddles…