art The world's oldest narrative art has been discovered. It's a picture of a guy jerking off to horny leopards Thom Dunn

archeology Paleolithic Venus of Willendorf statuette traced to Northern Italy Gareth Branwyn

ghosts Oldest-known drawing of a ghost found on ancient Babylonian tablet Thom Dunn

ancient art Special Operations soldiers attacked by 'ninja,' call local police for help Jason Weisberger

smuggling Hobby Lobby surrenders ancient Gilgamesh tablets to the US Government Thom Dunn

england Mullet Found On 2000 Year-old British Statue Thom Dunn

History Treasures continue to be unearthed this summer in Pompeii Andrea James

Funny A walk through art history, told in a series of imaginative shoe designs Xeni Jardin

archaeology This pub is 5,000 years old David Pescovitz

nightmare fuel Nightmarish prototype of a wind-up creeping baby doll Mark Frauenfelder

History English commoners' rights come from The Charter of the Forest, not the Magna Carta Elías Villoro

Weird Listen to Sasha Sagan's captivating new podcast about the bizarre and sometimes beautiful customs of humanity David Pescovitz

Comic Books Freaky finds: shopping for comics at Bizarro-Wuxtry Lee Keeler

reverse engineering Researchers reverse-engineer Roman concrete Andrew Yi

Internet Sunken Roman city ruins finally get an internet connection Thom Dunn

fashion Humans first got dressed 300,000 years ago, according to new discovery David Pescovitz

Grandiloquent Word of the Year 2022 The Grandiloquent Word of the Year for 2022 is "acrasia" Jennifer Sandlin

MARS ROVER This gingerbread Mars Curiosity rover is out of this world Rusty Blazenhoff

christianity Watch: Michele Bachmann said she spent Christmas telling her 3- and 6-year-old grandkids that the "eternal fires" of Hell await them Mark Frauenfelder

Ancient Apocalpyse Archaeologist David Wengrow pushes back against Ancient Apocalypse—and urges us to consider the power of everyday people Jennifer Sandlin