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Gender ambiguity was a tool of power 4,500 years ago in Mesopotamia
Gender-ambiguous people in ancient Mesopotamia were powerful and important members of society more than four millennia ago.
Research shows the Ishtar Temple at Assur was built on imported sand, revealing early ritual practices and the timeline of ...
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If astrology is fake, why has every civilization used it?
Astrology, the belief that the positions of celestial bodies influence earthly events and human lives, has been a pervasive ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.
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1900-year-old Roman doctor used human feces and thyme as medicine, study suggests
A cringeworthy new study has discovered dark-brown flakes inside a Roman glass medicinal vial, ...
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This 3,800-Year-Old Bronze Disc Might Be The First “Astronomy App” In History
Unearthed in Germany, the Nebra Sky Disc may be the world’s oldest cosmic map, revealing how ancient Europeans read the stars ...
The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...
Long before GPS, satellite images or even written directions, humans faced a simple but serious problem: how do you remember where things are? Where is the rive ...
Rick Edwards became hooked on backgammon at 21. Before long he was getting sunburnt playing it next to the terracotta army in ...
One of the greatest Ancient Egyptian finds is the discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, which was left untouched ...
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