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Ancient Roman City Falerii Novi Mapped With Ground-Penetrating Lasers

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The city of Falerii Novi was abandoned in 700 A.D. and has been buried ever since. Verdonck et al., 2020/AntiquityFalerii Novi was populated by around 3,000 people and contained a theater, shops, and monuments. For the first time in history, archaeologists have mapped an entire ancient Roman city using ground-penetrating radar. According to The Guardian, the buried town of Falerii Novi contained a bathhouse, theater, several temples and shops, and a large monument of a kind experts have never seen before. Read More...

Black And White Photos Restored With Brilliant Color

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Get a whole new perspective on history's most important people and events with these thirty-four black and white photos brilliantly restored in color.From an intimate portrait of Mark Twain in the last years of his life to an incredible overhead photograph of the D-Day invasion, we take a look history’s most important people and events captured in black and white photos and transformed into beautiful color images: The inventor of the bulletproof vest tests one of the first prototypes in Washington DC in 1923. Read More...

Debarking Breeder Caught Performing Brutal Procedure On 15 Dogs

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“The manner in which these dogs were devocalized is concerning on many levels, not the least of which is that it is illegal."Pennsylvania SPCA/FacebookTwo doberman puppies that were rescued by the Pennsylvania SPCA from a breeder that had been performing unlawful debarking procedures. A dog breeder in Lancaster County, Pa. recently had 15 dogs taken from him because he’d performed an illegal debarking procedure on them. Debarking is an extremely cruel method of rendering a dog mute, in this case by shoving a pipe-like object down its throat and damaging its vocal chords until they are totally unusable. Read More...

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