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An archaeological team s excavation of an ancient city has uncovered surprising revelations about an early Christian church ...

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For the first time, researchers were able to see inside the mummies in the Chicago Field Museum's collections. Their findings ...

Meg York's fingers dance up and down her clarinet to create the trills and augmentations of an ancient Sephardic melody. "It's like the accent of a language," said York, explaining the adjustments she ...

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William Dalrymple gives us a near-complete idea of how central India was to everything that happened in the ancient world ...