A white cardboard box sits in a cabinet at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology. Lift the lid and the box overflows with candy-like yellow paper...

Once an essential component for a fashionable woman, cigarette holders are rarely seen in contemporary times. These examples were collected by Sylvia Sethur...

Shells belonging to a family of particularly predatory, carnivorous sea snails. Extending its proboscis, this snail injects a quick-acting poison to paralyze...

Haliotidae Haliotis shells collected by L.H. Snyder on August 5, 1939 off of an island in what is now Kangwon province in North Korea. Haliotis specimens were...

Archaeological analysis of pepper remains from a cave in Mexico revealed humans were harvesting wild habanero chili peppers around 8,000 years ago. 2,000 years...

The blue mussel's diet determines shell color and patterning. As erosion wears away the colored calcite outer layer, inner layers of iridescent white nacre,...

The earliest examples of keys, made of wood, are found in the remnants of ancient Mesopotamian societies. Considered a symbol of status and authority in both...

The wrench typology is inspired by archaeologists typologies of prehistoric stone tools. Ancestors of modern humans created the earliest tools by grinding or...

1789- the first political button is worn by George Washington 1860-first photographic images on pins are seen during Abraham Lincoln's campaign 1896-celluloid...