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Mummies in museums normally lay encased in their wrappings. Their bodies are never looked at because, usually, there's no reason to. ...
Close to 1,500 years ago, a Chinese woman by the name of Farong was buried with some of the most exquisite jewelry imaginable. In 2011, her tomb was discovered ...
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NAHAL REPHA'IM BASIN, ISRAEL - Archaeologists were greeted with a surprising find when they opened up a 4,000-year-old Canaanite to...
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For hundreds of years, schools have taught that the Greek mathematician, Euclid, is the father of geometry, and that Pythagoras ...
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This year's eclipse was captured by millions of people with their smartphones and cameras. For a few minutes, it felt like the whole wor...
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For 500 years, the words on one slip of parchment have been unreadable. The manuscript was used to bind a book of medieval poet...
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VALLEY OF THE KINGS, EGYPT - famous archaeologist Zahi Hawass (former head of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities) thinks he may have ...
Sometimes, people set out with an idea in their heads to invent something useful. Other times, they create something completely by accident that ends up changin...
"Ideology, expressed in material form and through aspects of public rituals and public ceremonial structures, played a significant role in the development of ...
