The Yavapai County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution recognizing stormwater infiltration and recharge as important to local aquifers, rivers…
Yavapai County says work began September 28 to pave the remaining dirt section of Copper Basin Road between existing pavement…
The humble barcode turned a checkout problem into a worldwide information system, linking ordinary products to prices, inventories, recalls, and…
Published in 1963, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time joined an intimate letter to his nephew with a searching examination…
In 1974, farmers near Xi’an broke through fragments of clay while digging a well. What emerged was one of archaeology’s…
In 1939, an amateur archaeologist opened a Suffolk burial mound and found a ship, royal treasures, and a new way…
In 1940, four teenagers and a dog followed a hole in the French countryside and uncovered one of humanity’s most…
Found near the Dead Sea in 1947, the scrolls transformed the study of Judaism, the Hebrew Bible, and life in…
Found by soldiers near Egypt’s Mediterranean coast in 1799, the Rosetta Stone gave scholars the comparisons they needed to read…
When Howard Carter entered KV62 in 1922, he found more than a royal burial. The tomb’s extraordinary contents gave modern…
Recovered from a Roman-era shipwreck, the Antikythera Mechanism showed that ancient Greek engineers could build a compact device to track…
In November 1920, a small Westinghouse station in Pittsburgh sent election returns through the air. The experiment helped reveal that…