Harrison-Buck and her colleagues calculated that at its peak, the system could have produced enough fish each year to feed around 15,000 people. That’s based on modern estimates of how….
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The blast from the Israeli bomb that landed near the entrance to Baalbek’s Roman ruins was so deafening that Um Hussein, hiding out in a nearby church, could still hear….
When you think about skin care, snail mucin probably isn’t the first product that comes to mind. But snail secretion filtrate—a mucus these teeny mollusks produce to move, stay hydrated,….
Meanwhile, at stage right is Henry Liang. Born in China, the Sydney-based multi-instrumentalist and composer is a full-time musician, playing flute in the Royal Australian Navy Band. Not surprisingly, it’s….
Just last year, the internet was mightily bemused by the discovery that many men are low-key obsessed with the Roman Empire. Decades after Gladiator swept the Oscars, Ridley Scott is….
The sole caretaker of the pyramids at Meroë, a former capital of the ancient Kingdom of Kush, is the only person standing between some of Sudan’s greatest art treasures and….
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed rare carvings on an ancient Mayan ball court depicting a powerful snake-themed dynasty. Excavators have uncovered three stucco reliefs that depict scenes of the Kaanu’l rulers in….
The cathedral was seized last year from the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church because it allegedly needed renovation The Transfiguration Cathedral, one of the oldest Orthodox churches in Ukraine and which….
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