3-foot-long purple footprint found pressed in clay on coast of UK island, photo shows
A tour guide in the United Kingdom was confronted with something both rare and fantastical when he stumbled upon a ...
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Why Were All of These Bodies Buried Sitting Upright and Facing West More Than 2,000 Years Ago?
Archaeologists are still unraveling the mysteries of an unusual burial site in Dijon, France, which dates to between 450 and ...
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Images that capture our timeless obsession with the moon
Lunar: A history of the moon in myths, maps and matter tells the story of the coexistence between humanity and the celestial ...
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A possible Jurassic ornithuromorph furcula from the 150-million-yaer-old Zhenghe Fauna (IMAGE)
A possible Jurassic ornithuromorph furcula from the 150-million-yaer-old Zhenghe Fauna Life reconstruction of the Jurassic bird Baminornis zhenghensis from the Zhenghe Fauna ...
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Herodotus and the Controversy of When Jerusalem was Destroyed
Was Jerusalem destroyed in 587 or 607 BCE? Often overlooked in this controversy is some evidence from Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian.
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The Mystery of the World's Oldest Writing System Remained Unsolved Until Four Competitive Scholars Raced to Decipher It
On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...
New Islamic Museum of Art exhibit shines spotlight on Iraq
The show found a temporary home at the museum largely thanks to the inspiration and practical endeavor of Oded Halahmy, an 86 ...