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“Mayan calendar specialists anticipated solar eclipses by correlating their occurrences with dates in their 260-day ...

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The Pekingese is a lucky dog breeds in Chinese culture. It was originally bred to be a companion for the Chinese ruling class ...

A cube-shaped skull that was discovered in Mexico provides rare insight into a 1,400-year-old Mesoamerican civilization’s social practices — which included deliberate deformation. The skull belonged ...

Yet the very system that made Angkor great eventually contributed to its downfall. Researchers determined that a period of ...

As a kid, I loved rummaging around my uncle’s makeshift museum. Wilfred Sylvester was an enthusiastic amateur historian and collector of remarkable artifacts, and he had transformed two rooms of my ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

Today, trans people face politicization of their lives and vilification from politicians, media and parts of broader society.