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TIME turns 90: All you need to know about modern history in 90 TIME covers
Where has the time gone? It was back in March of 1923, that the first issue of TIME hit newsstands. As we prepare to celebrate our 90th birthday, a look back at world history as told through 90 memorable cover stories.
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LIFE at the Vatican: Unearthing History Beneath St. Peter’s
The walled, pint-sized city-state known as the Vatican physically takes up around 100 acres in the center of Rome, but occupies a vast, measureless space in the lives of more than a billion practicing Catholics around the globe.
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Abandoned Saucer-Shaped Communist Party Headquarters on a Bulgarian Mountaintop
The Buzludzha Monument is a massive saucer-shaped communist-era building high atop a mountain in Bulgaria. Completed in 1981, the building features a 350 foot tall tower and an enormous circular conference hall. In addition to serving as a monument to Bulgarian socialism, the building was also the headquarters of the country’s Communist Party. However with the collapse of communism in Bulgaria in 1990, the monument fell into disuse and disrepair.
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Jimi Hendrix: Never-before-heard recordings to be released.
Jimi Hendrix died in 1970 at the age of 27, but his influence on music continues to this day. Now, a new album of never-before-heard Hendrix recordings is coming out. Bill Whitaker reports.
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The Gate: Contemplating the secret portal that led to the atomic bomb
There it was, completely nondescript. Nobody could ever tell what the room was used for more than half a century ago. But then I thought that that sounded apt; after all, nobody was supposed to know in the first place what went on in there. To that extent it perfectly served its intended purpose. An unexceptional but heavy iron gate right next to it probably was the only object that possibly enforced the gravity of the situation.
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Soviet war veteran found in Afghanistan after 33 years
A Soviet soldier who went missing in Afghanistan nearly 33 years ago has been found living with Afghans in the western province of Herat.
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Giant camel fossil found in Arctic
Camels are well known for their ability to survive the hot and dry conditions of the desert, but a study suggests they once thrived in colder climes. Scientists have unearthed the fossilised remains of a giant species of camel in Canada's High Arctic.
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The father of all men is 340,000 years old
We had thought that all men share a common male ancestor who lived within the last 140,000 years but one African American man has broken the mould.
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Ignorance
Now available in color!
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Starry frog rediscovered after thought extinct for 160 years (photos)
In 1853 Edward Frederick Kelaart, a physician and naturalist, collected a strange frog on the island of Sri Lanka then a British colony known as Ceylon. The specimen was a large shrub frog (about 2 inches or 5.5 centimeters long) with black-outlined white specks on lime-green skin. He dubbed it
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The Corpse That Fooled Hitler
On the morning of April 30, 1943, a fisherman working off the coast of Huelva, Spain found a body floating in the water. The corpse, an adult male, was badly decomposed and wearing a military uniform, trench coat, and boots. Floating nearby, and attached to the man’s trench coat belt with a chain, was a briefcase.
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Dr. Mengele's Victim: Why One Auschwitz Survivor Avoided Doctors for 65 Years
Sixty-five years ago, infamous Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele removed Yitzhak Ganon's kidney without anesthesia. The Greek-born Jew swore never to see a doctor again -- until a heart attack last month brought his horrific tale into the open.
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Syria's priceless heritage under attack
Thousands have been killed and millions made homeless in Syria's civil war, but it has also caused irreparable damage to some of the world's most precious historical sites. The treasures now being destroyed matter to everyone on the planet, argues historian Dan Snow.
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Researchers: Stonehenge started as huge graveyard
British researchers have proposed a new theory for the origins of Stonehenge: It may have started as a giant burial ground for elite families around 3,000 B.C.
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16 Photographs That Capture the Best and Worst of 1970s America
A new exhibit at the National Archives highlights an interesting decade—one that gave rise to the environmental movement and some awkward fashion.
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Case Closed: 12 Locked Down Abandoned Police Stations
These unlocked, unloaded and unmanned abandoned police stations suggest that when the long arm of the law has withered, the end of society must be nigh.
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They met as enemies over the war-torn skies of Europe during but reunited years later as brothers.
The pilot glanced outside his cockpit and froze. He blinked hard and looked again, hoping it was just a mirage. But his co-pilot stared at the same horrible vision.
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The 6 Most Badass Ways Anyone Has Ever Escaped the Country
You didn't have to be crazy to attempt an escape from one of these places. But it sure as hell helped.
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‘Hitler wasn’t all bad’, 42% of Austrians say
Over 40 per cent of Austrians believe the Hitler era wasn’t ‘all bad’, according to the latest poll conducted by the Linz Market Institute.
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USA in 1900
Amazing photo showing life in the 1900's in USA.
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