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Dongba: The Last Hieroglyph and the Struggle to Save Naxi Culture

The Dongba symbols are an ancient system of pictographic glyphs created by the founder of the Bön religious tradition of

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Shocking 2,000-Year-Old Fig Find Opens New Chapter in Ireland’s History

A recent discovery at the Drumanagh promontory fort in North Dublin is reshaping our understanding of Ireland’s Iron Age trade

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Telling Discovery Indicates Neanderthals Collected Fossils

A Neanderthal cave in northern Spain has yielded 15 marine fossils, indicative that our extinct ancestors might have been collectors,

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As the Taurid Meteor Shower Passes by Earth, Pseudoscience Rains Down – and Obscures a Potential Real Threat from Space

Mark Boslough/The Conversation With the Taurid meteor shower now hitting the night skies worldwide, look for what could be a

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Fear, Friendship and the Channel Tunnel

At 8.23am on the morning of 14 November 1994, crowds cheered as the first Eurostar train carrying fare-paying passengers under

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The Death of Clive of India

In the days following the sudden death, aged 49, of Robert Clive – ‘Clive of India’ – on 22 November

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Paracelsus: Revolutionary or Mystic? | History Today

Thanks to Joseph Goebbels, the film director Georg Wilhelm Pabst luxuriated in a massive budget for the dramatised documentary he

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Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot to Obliterate the British House of Lords

Every fifth of November, people across the United Kingdom celebrate Guy Fawkes Night (also known as Guy Fawkes Day, Bonfire

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Mesopotamians Made Predictions with Sheep’s Livers

Selena Wisnom/The Conversation I’m standing in a basement kitchen prodding at a sheep’s liver, looking for marks on its smooth

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5,000-Year-Old Settlement Plus Early Temple Uncovered in Israel

Archaeologists working in Israel have discovered a 5,000-year-old settlement at Hurvat Husham, near Beit Shemesh, as a prelude to the