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Now, groundbreaking research published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage has finally unraveled the chemical mystery behind this extraordinary preservation phenomenon. The teenage boy's remains, ...

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Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

The expansion of Ancient Greeks into Assyria between the 9th and the 7th centuries BC occurred through mercenary warfare and ...

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Consuming food all by oneself is an anomaly in the history of human civilization, a deviation from millennia of tradition.

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In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

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