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O. Louis Mazzatenta

The relocated temple stands more than 200 feet higher and 690 feet inland from the former shore—an ancient wonder saved by modern engineering.

Women carry baskets of huge loaves of bread on their heads as a part of celebrations during the Feast of the Holy Spirit in Ribeiras, Pico Island, Portugal. This photo appeared in a February 1976 story about the Azores, an archipelago of nine islands off the coast of Portugal.

The June 2002 issue featured "The Untold Stories of D-Day." Here, Evelyn Kowalchuk, a veteran of the Army Nurse Corps, poses with her favorite recruitment poster and a picture of herself. Kowalchuk was a nurse on Omaha Beach, treating the wounded after D-Day— June 6, 1944.

To prevent art theft and vandalism, statues in Rome's Villa Borghese gardens have been removed and stored in a shed. A special unit of the Italian police force works to recover stolen art, an all-too-common problem in the country.

True polar wander may be behind the demise of northern China's array of life known as the Yanliao Biota. This die-off set the stage for a new jumble of creatures to arise known as the Jehol Biota, which includes the fossil Jeholosaurus shown here.

Reflected in a pond, the Apollo 11 spacecraft sits high atop the Saturn V rocket on its launch pad on July 15, 1969, the eve of its historic mission to the moon.

This Sapeornis chaoyangensis fossil, housed in a Beijing museum, offers clues about the feeding habits of the Earth's early birds. The presence of gastroliths—stones ingested by animals to grind food in the gut—indicates that this species was a plant-eater. Other significant features include exceptionally long forelimbs, suggesting that Sapeornis, the largest known bird from the early Cretaceous, might have been able to soar.

Luxor began as a small trading center about 4,000 years ago and today its temples and tombs are major tourist destinations.

Researchers believed that chromium protected the bronze weapons from decaying over more than 2,000 years.

The name of this species, 'Mei long', comes from the Chinese for “soundly sleeping dragon,” reflecting the fact that this remarkable fossil captures a rare and peaceful moment of dinosaur behaviour. Seen here from underneath, this troodontid is tucked up in the roosting position familiar from modern birds, with its head nestled under its forearm. The folded-up feet and legs run right-left in this image, with the tail wrapped across the top.