Arts & Culture
74 sourced historical stories, arranged by subject.
Arts & CultureA record bound for deep space carried the sounds of Earth
Each of the two Voyager probes launched in 1977 carried a gold-plated copper record containing images, music, natural sounds, and greetings in many languages.
4 min readRead the story →
Arts & CultureA vast encyclopedia preserved passages from lost books
The Yongle Encyclopedia collected and arranged documentary material on an enormous scale, preserving some sources that subsequently disappeared. Most of the original work was later lost, and only a portion of its volumes survive. Tracing, editing, and publishing fragments has become an important task in the history of texts.
4 min readRead the story →