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The “Greekness” of the Terracotta Army went viral, but archaeologists in China were skeptical of the influence of Greek art.

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Mamdani became the first Muslim person to be elected mayor of New York City after being heavily criticized for his stance ...

The archaeologists that found the stone-paved chamber, located inside a hilltop fort in Scotland, still aren’t sure exactly ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

It has never worked, and is not likely to ever work given the catastrophic history this approach has demonstrated. Example ...

As archaeologists slowly excavate this ancient statue from the earth, they are, in a sense, awakening a witness to humanity's earliest attempts to comprehend the cosmos and to communicate with the ...

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After the collapse of the Chalcolithic culture around 3500 BCE, people in Jordan’s Murayghat transformed their way of life, shifting from domestic settlements to ritual landscapes filled with dolmens, ...