Researchers have recreated the face of a 4,500-year-old dog

Earthquake photos, chuck wagons, and an unlikely Michigan gravesite. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. April 18, 2019 Neolithic Dog In a first for canine forensics, researchers have reconstructed the head of a domesticated dog that lived in Scotland’s Orkney Islands some 4,500 years ago. Read More → Earthquake Photos Several dozen striking photographs documenting the aftermath of the earthquake that shook San Francisco on April 18, 1906, are up for sale this week. The images capture slumping homes, fractured streets, and even people salvaging things from the rubble, but it's not entirely clear who captured them. Read more → Atlas Obscura Trips Hidden Berlin Join us in Berlin this September as we explore historic ballrooms, quirky museums, and cutting-edge street art on a six-day tour through the city’s lesser-known sites. Learn more → Chuck Wagons Starting in the 1860s, cowboys traveled across the American West alongside chuck wagons—mobile kitchens with the necessary equipment to feed themselves on long journeys. Once confined to museums and history, the iconic wagons live on thanks to South Dakota’s Hansen Wheel and Wagon Shop. Read more → SUTTONS BAY, MICHIGAN Unlikely Royal Grave European royals Archduke Stefan of Austria and his wife, Mary Jerrine Soper, are buried in the quaint St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in remote Northern Michigan. Read more → STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Mårten Trotzigs Gränd Stockholm's narrowest alley is barely over two feet wide. Located in the middle of the city’s old town, the alley connects the two main roads with a very skinny staircase and a few lamps that almost touch the opposite wall. Read more → Food & Drink Marlborough Pie Dating back to 1660, this forgotten Massachusetts treat enhanced spoiling apples with a custard filling. Read more → From our friends at History Quiz Show Fraud Throughout the late 1950s, popular TV quiz shows were often extremely rigged. The televised frauds led to a grand jury, a congressional investigation, a change in communications law, and eventually the Jeopardy! we know today. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222