Click Here to Read: A mere 3,400 years ago, one of Egypt’s greatest, most enigmatic, and, to be polite, let’s say eccentric pharaohs got one of the most revolutionary ideas in history in his head by Candida Moss in the Stones and Bones newsletter on the National Geographic website on July 1, 2026,
Akhenaten Image: Beeld van Achnaton. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Mozart manuscript back to life: A long-forgotten manuscript by composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will be brought to life this weekend in Paris. The newly rediscovered work – composed in 1778 when the Austrian prodigy was just 22 – will be performed in public for the first time ever at France’s National Library on the France 24 website on June 19,2026.
Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ImageL Barbara Krafft (1764–1825). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: What makes a Stradivarius violin so special? Scientists traced it to one forest in Italy. A new tree-ring study solves the mystery of where the famed instrument-maker Anton Stradivari sourced timber for his violins during his “golden age.” By Richard Kemeny on the National Geographic Website on June 9, 2026.
Gould Stradivarius. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. 
Click Here to Read: Sagrada Família’s 144-year journey nears its end with the Tower of Jesus Christ By Pau Mosquera, CNN; Photographs by Maria Contreras Coll for CNN on the CNN website on June 8. 2026.
Click Here to Read: The Basilica Sagrada Familia’s website.
The Sagrada Familia viewed from Casa Milà, Barcelona, Spain Image: Bernard Gagnon. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
