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  • The Old Straight Track
    History How a businessman's hunch became New Age gospel Ellsworth Toohey
  • Mummy at the Cairo Museum in Cairo, Egypt. RPBaiao: Shutterstock.com
    Science Someone put the dullest part of The Iliad inside a mummy Ruben Bolling
  • Las Dantas panel at Cerro Azul, La Lindosa (Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License)
    History Prehistoric rock art in Colombia's Serranía de la Lindosa reveals ancient human "Kiss" Popkin
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    art Ancient Peruvian textile features a feline spirit Popkin
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    History The best-preserved ancient human ever found had 130 melon seeds in her stomach Ellsworth Toohey
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    Science Hidden for 4,500 years: a sealed corridor in the Great Pyramid Ellsworth Toohey
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    Science Neanderthals carried travel toolkits when they went bear hunting Ellsworth Toohey
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    archaeology "Open arse" — medieval Europe's rotting fruit delicacy found in Roman toilet Ellsworth Toohey
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    politics YouTube's favorite money-throwing manchild learns that Mexico's president doesn't appreciate his temple tourism tomfoolery Grant St. Clair
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    archaeology Skeleton of woman found wrapped in chains for a surprising reason Allan Rose Hill
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    archaeology The surprising reason our Iron Age ancestors drove massive spikes through the heads of the dead Allan Rose Hill
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    Science Archaeologists discover remains of ancient mystic with six fingers Allan Rose Hill
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    History These Medieval church ladies really let it all hang out Ellsworth Toohey
  • Pyramids in Egypt. Photo: GLF Media / Shutterstock.com
    archaeology Has a secret passage in the Great Pyramid been hiding in plain sight? Jason Weisberger
  • Bronze sword used by King Goujian of Yue Credit: Windmemories / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
    archaeology This 2,500-year-old Chinese sword looks like "something from the J.R.R. Tolkien universe that has entered the actual historical record" Ellsworth Toohey
  • Babylonian demon carvings from R.C. Thompson's 1903 translation of ancient incantations against evil spirits. Credit: Public Domain Image Archive
    religion Babylonian tablets reveal kings installed royal doubles during eclipses, then executed them Ellsworth Toohey
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    animals New York resident finds 11,000-year-old mastodon jaw in backyard Allan Rose Hill
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    Science There's a room-sized time capsule in Georgia that will be opened 6,098 years from now Ellsworth Toohey
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    archaeology "Amateurish" and "clumsy" tomb raiders forced to return ancient artifacts Allan Rose Hill
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    drugs Evidence of ancient speed freaks found in Pleistocene burial cave Allan Rose Hill
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