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Four Smithsonian museums remain closed amid HVAC problems
Four Smithsonian museums on the National Mall remained closed Tuesday as crews worked to resolve heating, ventilation and air ...
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UNESCO cements UAE’s historical significance by inscribing Sharjah’s Faya as the only Arab World Heritage Site inscription this year
The inscription came during the 47th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Paris, under the ‘Cultural Landscape’ ...
Scientists Sequence First Genome From Ancient Egypt, Revealing 4,800-Year-Old Secrets
The first full ancient Egyptian genome reveals ancestry from both North Africa and Mesopotamia. The individual likely worked ...
New heist video game lets players reclaim 70 real African artifacts from museums
The artifacts at the heart of “Relooted” are real and “are of huge cultural, historical, and spiritual significance to the ...
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Archaeologists digging in the mists of an African waterfall have found the world’s oldest wooden structure, built before Homo sapiens evolved.
The discovery of the oldest known wooden structure at Kalambo Falls in Zambia has flung open the door into a new chapter of ...
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How Underwater Archaeology Brings Secrets to the Surface, From Lost Shipwrecks to Submerged Cities
An immersive new exhibition at the Intrepid Museum in New York City spotlights the science and technology behind the ...