Plus, why a 5-day workweek; a rare penguin; and is melatonin giving you nightmares?
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Jerusalem is a city atop cities. It’s alive up top—new garages planned, people living in crammed-together homes—just above where archaeologists and their crews are uncovering secrets below.
A narrow ridge conceals a breathtaking subterranean labyrinth of natural caves, Canaanite water channels, Judaean tunnels, and Roman quarries. In a developing city central to three faiths, there’s a sense of urgency to find its treasures before further construction, or before a snapping of constant Israeli-Palestinian strains—or a worsening of suddenly severe intra-Israeli tensions. What have archaeologists found? What are they trying to get to?
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Under Jerusalem: Fans enjoy a concert in Zedekiah’s Cave, a quarry that for millennia provided limestone for buildings above. Legends say Judaean King Zedekiah escaped through the cave in the sixth century B.C. and that King Solomon may have used its stone to build the first Jewish Temple. At top, a quarry below the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, near the hill where Jesus was crucified. Read more. | | | |
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY BETTMANN, GETTY IMAGES | | How the workweek was shaped: Why five days? 40 hours? Why not four days? It’s hard to imagine, but when Henry Ford established a five-day workweek for his company in 1922, he was lambasted by business as bowing to slackers, Nat Geo reports. The move took a while to spread. (Above, New York sanitation workers circling City Hall in 1952 to demand a five-day week—instead of six.)
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA | | | From subtle hues come vibrant colors: The variations in birdwing chrysalides—the final stage of metamorphosis from which a winged adult butterfly emerges—mimic the vegetation surrounding the pupating caterpillars. These specimens, photographed by Nat Geo Explorer Evgenia Arbugaeva, are native to Cambodia. See our story on the hidden world of the butterfly trade. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY JEFF MAURITZEN | | Not like the others: This cute little creature is unlike the rest— “washed out" or "like it was bleached" if you ask Nat Geo Explorer P. Dee Boersma.
And it's only the second one these genetically mutated penguins photographer Jeff Mauritzen has ever seen—and he's seen millions.
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Today's soundtrack: Good Intentions Paving Company, Joanna Newsom
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