A simple turn of the wrist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in February 2023 has unveiled a centuries-old mystery about ancient Roman craftsmen. Washington State University art history professor ...

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Raulane, Kinnaur’s 5,000-year-old winter festival, honours celestial fairies with symbolic rituals, masked dancers and a ...

An international team of scientists have uncovered new evidence of ancient wildfires that reshapes our understanding of Earth’s ancient history.

The printing press helped build libraries that were impossibly large by ancient standards. That created its own new ...

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