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Scallop shells have accompanied pilgrims to and from Santiago de Compostela for centuries, for more than one reason
The artifacts were often made from found objects – an Ivory dish-soap bottle transformed into an earthenware figure.
If you don't mourn in North Korea, you risk being executed.
Televising the coronation was thought to be an affront to the dignity of the event.
Recent research suggests that Earth’s magnetic field bounced back just as complex life was starting to emerge on our planet.
Was our distant ancestor a biped or not – i.e., human or not human?
"Spanish Stonehenge" contains 526 giant stones, three circular burial sites, a quarry, and four necropolises.
The East India Company issued stocks to minimize the risk on their unpredictable but highly lucrative voyages. The rest is history.
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There are nearly 100 towns named "Troy."
The “first-of-its-kind” archeological find is being reburied despite the fact that researchers haven’t finished studying it.
Following the advent of human space flight, NASA began naming missions after children of Zeus.
Fire-breathing dragons may represent chaos and the human impulse to conquer that threat.
Total annihilation is a permanent threat.
Though difficult to watch, films like "Shoah" and "Life of Crime" cover topics that should not be ignored.
The Greeks were among the first to move beyond “primitive money” and establish an official currency, transforming their trade, government, and even philosophy.
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The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.
Looking at ourselves in a mirror — or on a video call — shapes our sense of self. But what you see is not what others see.
Mesopotamian beer was not flavored with hops, and it was probably on the thick, porridgey side.
Bloodcurdling war cries, shrieking elephants, and whistling arrows all made soldiers flee in terror.
What's the point of all that money?
"When you see me, weep." When rivers dry up in Central Europe, "hunger stones" with ominous inscribed warnings from centuries past reappear.
It’s all about salesmanship.
Commodus lived the anti-Stoic life, pursuing lust, narcissism, and self-indulgence.
A forensics expert explains what’s involved with documenting human rights violations during conflicts, from Afghanistan to Ukraine.
Rock art in northern Australia depicts marsupial lions, giant kangaroos, and other megafauna that populated the Land Down Under long ago.
The 557-million-year-old specimen challenges the theory that animal body plans were laid out in the Cambrian explosion.
An interactive “globe of notability” shows the curious correspondences and the strange landscape of global fame.
It is wrong to think that these three statements contradict each other. We need to see that they are all true to see that a better world is possible.