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The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
If you get married in South Africa, don't be surprised if someone shows up to the ceremony dragging along a smelly goat.
How to say “I love you” in Basque, the "most loving" cities around the world, and where most of America’s singles live — and so much more!
X marks the spot. The Dutch town of Ommeren has been swamped by detectorists armed with shovels looking for $20-million treasure.
A history of injustice and the greatest natural location for ground-based telescopes have long been at odds. Here's how the healing begins.
Some Europeans really don't want to use the internet.
Some objects were softer than others.
A new study of global love finds that Americans have some of the most loving relationships, while Chinese and Germans have some of the least.
In many city-states, it was perfectly acceptable for older men to have sexual relationships with young boys.
Hinduism emphasizes the journey, whichever path that takes. And it holds us responsible for our own self-improvement.
If comedies do get made today, they usually bypass the big screen and go straight to streaming platforms.
The Athenian rich paid their taxes because they craved the social success of being perceived as "useful."
We might be dining on insect-based Christmas pies with robot-harvested algae on the side.
"The Da Vinci Code" popularized the idea that Christians stole much of their theology. It's wrong, especially regarding Christmas.
Use words with plosives and affricates if you really want to make sure everyone knows you mean business.
Zen masters often have strikingly different ideas about how to live and attain enlightenment.
We don’t know when or how music was originally invented, but we can now track its evolution across space and time thanks to the Global Jukebox.
Bilingualism confers various mental health and social benefits. Perhaps knowing a second alphabet confers even more.
Mahāyāna is the most popular type of Buddhism in the world today.
Its apples taste bad, but institutions all over the world want a descendant or clone of the tree, anyway.
"Oosouji" or "big cleaning" is much more than a chance to tidy up.
Nothing meaningful is done quickly.
Who's for dinner?
You can buy over 400,000 products tagged “witch” on Etsy, from candles to spell bottles to pentagram necklaces.
More than 1,000 years ago, Mesoamerican societies conducted one of history's most interesting experiments in commodity money.
Million Stories
Modernism has lasted longer than any art movement since the Renaissance.
If you don't mourn in North Korea, you risk being executed.
An interview with filmmaker Jason Sussberg about his new film about Stewart Brand and the importance of culture in achieving progress.
"Spanish Stonehenge" contains 526 giant stones, three circular burial sites, a quarry, and four necropolises.