- Animated gifs showing how city subway maps compare to real geography. [via Open Culture]
- We’ll let the headline from our friends at the National Museum of American History speak for itself: “The Smithsonian and the 19th century guano trade: This poop is crap.” [via the O Say Can You See? blog]
- Thanks to new laser technology, archaeologists have unearthed a set of 1,600 year-old frescoes in one of Rome’s oldest catacombs [via The Telegraph]
- Proof that cats haven’t changed much in 2,000 years: a paw print from a cat that walked on a wet clay roof was found during an archaeological dig in England. [via Atlas Obscura]
- 30,000 Getty Museum images are now viewable using IIIF, letting you zoom in, annotate, and compare artwork side by side. [via The Getty blog]
- How Edith Wharton enlisted artists like Henry James, Claude Monet, and William Butler Yeats to help fundraise for World War I refugees. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
- It’s been 50 years since The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonley Hearts Club Band” was released. Listen to the band’s first take of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” [via NPR]
- Fascinating: a video of the British Museum conserving the 16th century “Triumphal Arch,” one of the largest prints ever made. [via Hyperallergic]
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