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In early November 1878, a cemetery groundskeeper making his morning rounds at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery found a hole where a grave should have been. The burial vault of Alexander Turney Stewart, dead for barely a year, had been opened overnight. The coffin had been dragged out and the body removed. Stewart was … Read more

Last spring, an Egyptian archaeological team working in the Abydos necropolis discovered something that had eluded over a century of systematic excavation at one of the most intensely studied sacred sites in Egypt. They uncovered a royal tomb complex containing multiple burial chambers, intact funerary goods, and human remains belonging to individuals whose inscriptions and … Read more

Just before dawn on June 4, 1971, a fog-shrouded hill in the far north of South Vietnam was about to become the site of one of the most remarkable defensive stands of the war. At the top stood a 27-year-old Army sergeant first class who had grown up picking peaches in California and who had … Read more

Late one afternoon in a large Philadelphia household, a young girl was locked inside a closet by one of her sisters. She did not cry out. She simply sat down in the dark, took out her dolls, and quietly played by herself until someone finally let her out. That child would grow up to become … Read more