History

Auctioneer Jonathan Klunk gestures to a display of personal items owned by KFC founder Harland Sanders, Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in Shelbyville, Ky. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan)

Riders wait for the horse ceremony to begin during festivities commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Wednesday, June 24, 2026, in Crow Agency, Mont. (AP Photo/Tailyr Irvine)

Calla Ruff, an intern from Carleton College, holds a musket ball that was removed from an archaeological dig at the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill, Monday, June 15, 2026, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

This 2019 image from Angela Lieverse shows the skull of an adult woman who was infected with the plague and was buried in Siberia. (Angela Lieverse via AP)

Archaeological workers wearing hard hats dig 4 meters (13 feet) underground during excavations outside Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, Monday, June 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)

Terry Koller, Bradford Shields and Joseph Robinson steady a cannon, which sunk to the bottom of the Savannah River during the American Revolution, as it's hoisted from the bed of a truck at the Savannah History Museum in Savannah, Ga., on Wednesday, June 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Russ Bynum)

A rare, long-lost copy of Caedmon's Hymn — the first poem ever written down in Old English — is visible in the five lines above the final line of a page from an 8th-century manuscript copy of the Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, at Rome's National Library, Thursday, May 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrea Rosa)

The Latin phrase "E Pluribus Unum" is seen on a one dollar coin, Monday, April 13, 2026, in Portland, Maine.(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

A William Faulkner quote displayed in the Mississippi Made exhibit reads, "To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi," on Friday, March 27, 2026, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Sophie Bates)

Ginette Kolinka, sobreviviente de Auschwitz de 101 años de edad, sonríe tras una reunión con alumnos de una secundaria de la región de París en Saint-Maur-des-Fosses, en las afueras de París, Francia, el 21 de marzo de 2026. (AP Foto/Thibault Camus)

The Delta State basketball court is seen, Feb. 17, 2026, in Cleveland, Miss. (AP Photo/Alanis Thames)

A general view of the Degemar Quarry near Tivoli, Italy, 35 kilometers east of Rome, on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, where 17th-century Baroque architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini selected travertine for the colonnade of St. Peter's Square. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)