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Punk Rock Dinosaur Rewrites Prehistoric Armor Evolution

Scientists have discovered that the world’s oldest armored dinosaur sported the most extreme defensive features ever found in any vertebrate,

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Tidal Forces Shaped the Rise of Sumer, the World's First Urban Civilization

Revolutionary new research challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of urban civilization in ancient Mesopotamia, revealing that tidal dynamics at

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When Summer Meant Sea Serpents

From the 1860s, late July through to mid-September became known as the ‘silly season’. With Parliament and law courts in

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Sophisticated Warer Pipeline Reveals 1,500-Year-Old Engineering Marvel

Archaeologists in Tajikistan have uncovered a remarkable 1,500-year-old water pipeline system perched atop a 65-meter hill at the Mugtepa settlement

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Cowboy Diplomacy in the Spanish-American War

By 1898 tensions at Arizona’s border with Mexico had waned but not disappeared. The end of the Mexican-American War in

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Spain Was Different: Tourism Under Franco

South of the Pyrenees lies the holidaymakers’ Utopia’, promised a 1958 Thomas Cook brochure: ‘a spectacular, flamboyant kingdom of the

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Ancient Finger Traces from First Nations Found in Glittering Cave

By Russell Mullett et al. /The Conversation Australia’s First Nations history stretches back many tens of thousands of years, rich

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Subterranean World of the Paris Catacombs Has a Fascinating History

The world’s largest bone repository will have its first complete shutdown since opening to the public over two centuries ago.

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Medieval Knight's Grave Unearthed Beneath Ice Cream Parlor

Archaeologists in Gdansk, Poland have made an extraordinary discovery beneath the floor of a beloved ice cream parlor, unearthing a

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Mental Health and the 17th-Century Ship’s Doctor

In September 1649 ship’s surgeon John Conny was deeply relieved and praised God that ‘all our men [are] in reasonable