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1 week ago | 
thetravel.com | Arianna Winslow
If you ask anyone on the street today to name an Egyptian pharaoh, it's likely that the person they'll blurt out is King Tut. Known as the boy king, King Tutankhamun is Egypt's most well-known pharaoh.
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1 week ago | 
thetravel.com | Arianna Winslow
Anything can happen when working on an archaeological dig. Occasionally, an object is found that can be puzzling even to the most senior archaeologists. Of all the mysterious ancient artifacts found, none is as mysterious as the Phaistos Disk. Found on Crete during the early 20th century, this disk has puzzled archaeologists and linguists since its discovery. What makes the Phaistos Disk so compelling is its layers upon layers of mysteries.
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1 week ago | 
thetravel.com | Arianna Winslow
Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your TheTravel account Out of all the world-changing disasters of ancient times, none stand out quite as much as the horrific volcanic eruption that engulfed the Roman city of Pompeii in 79 CE. Even 1900 years later, the trauma of the event lingers in our collective consciousness; we still tell and retell the story of Pompeii in media, from paintings to film to novels. Many of these depictions of Pompeii's story get one aspect of its story wrong: the...
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2 weeks ago | 
thetravel.com | Arianna Winslow
Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your TheTravel account Dreamstime / AI Generated Lake Tahoe in California is one of the country's most beautiful alpine lakes. Crystaline cerulean water, gorgeous mountain views, and stunning forests make this area a seemingly perfect vacation spot. A fact about Lake Tahoe that many people don't realize, though, is that it's actually a lot spookier than most give it credit for. Turns out, the frigid temperatures and heart-stopping depth of the lake are...
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2 weeks ago | 
thetravel.com | Arianna Winslow
Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your TheTravel account Many people wonder about the historicity of Christianity, a nearly 2,000-year-old religion. While many of the locations mentioned in the Bible are real, individual stories and figures from this collection of ancient texts are open to interpretation. One of the biggest questions some people have about Christianity is whether or not Jesus, the Jewish teacher the religion focuses on, was real. Although some in the past have claimed that...
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2 weeks ago | 
thetravel.com | Arianna Winslow
Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your TheTravel account In March and April of 2025, the U.S. stock market suffered one of the worst crashes of the 21st century. The reason? The administration of President Donald Trump imposed a series of tariffs that changed almost daily. Tariffs on Chinese goods, for instance, started at 74% and then skyrocketed to 145% in mere days. As prices on household goods continue to rise, many Americans seek to counter their anxieties with knowledge. Many are now...
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2 weeks ago | 
thetravel.com | Arianna Winslow
Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your TheTravel account If you've ever been around professionals from the "dirt corner" of science (archaeology, paleontology, and geology), you'll no doubt have heard stories of brilliant, quirky people conducting research in ways that might seem strange from the outside. From naming artifacts to relying on lucky trowels, pretty much every dig or excursion has interesting idiosyncrasies that make for great stories back home. Occasionally, these can be kind...
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2 weeks ago | 
thetravel.com | Arianna Winslow
Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your TheTravel account When people think of the most fascinating fossil finds from the Jurassic Period, their mind often goes to the gigantic and scary dinosaurs that once walked the planet. In 2023, a team of scientists excavating on the shores of Lake Powell made a discovery that would show the world a completely different side to this time period: some of the first mammaliaforms. Time was working against them, though, and they only had 120 days to...
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2 weeks ago | 
thetravel.com | Arianna Winslow
Few subjects in archaeology are as groundbreaking and quickly changing as the study of human occupation in the Americas. This ongoing debate between archaeologists has seen some pretty massive finds in the past five years, some of which have shown that humans lived in North America thousands of years earlier than previously expected.
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3 weeks ago | 
thetravel.com | Arianna Winslow
If you're reading this, chances are you've been taught in school that the man who discovered the Americas was Christopher Columbus. While it goes without saying that the Americas were actually discovered by the first people who lived there, the Native Americans, many have argued about who the first European to visit was. Although many have argued for Christopher Columbus in the past, research from the 1960s has shown otherwise. So who actually was the first European in the Americas?
