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The hotly anticipated new museum boasts some of the greatest treasures of antiquity. But there are some notable exceptions.

While the women accused in the infamous Salem witch trials in colonial America have long since been pardoned, the convictions of hundreds of British women executed under similar laws officially still ...

Archaeologists from the University of Glasgow and the National Trust for Scotland have recovered more than 100 projectiles, ...

Long before electricity, the people of ancient Persia engineered towering windcatchers, structures that funneled desert air ...

At the northern end of Hadrian’s Wall, volunteers and archaeology students uncovered pottery, metalwork, soldiers’ tools, and ...

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