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Originally a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, Christmas has evolved into a global cultural event.

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Sappho sang of desire, passion, and love, mostly directed towards women. She remains the most mysterious of ancient poets.

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Excavations of an ancient construction site in Pompeii have revealed the process of how Romans mixed their self-healing concrete.

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Buried in the desert for roughly 4,500 years, the skeleton of a single Egyptian man has yielded a complete genome that ...

When we think of Venetian glass, our minds leap to the blazing furnaces of Murano, to delicate filigree and the vivid colors ...

Unlike most Anglo-Saxon gold hoards, which are typically recovered from burial contexts alongside human remains and other grave goods, these objects were found scattered across a slope with no ...