How one man’s bone fetish redefined our understanding of race.
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Who has the prettiest skull?
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Halfdan Was Here
How Viking graffiti made it all the way to a church in Istanbul.
Acrophobia in the city of lights.
The organizers of the Tokyo Olympics added six new sports to the existing lineup. Let’s add some more.
There’s a lot more to the stick figure athletes representing Olympic events, a series of evolving images with a legacy of iconographic trailblazing, antifascism, and international accord.
…Hakuna Matata
Historians and archaeologists say the oldest and largest ancient pyramids are in Egypt and Mexico. One Bosnian wizard says they’re wrong.
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Fire Underfoot
Separated by 9,900 miles, two underground blazes still burn after 50 years.
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How Egyptian was Cleopatra?
Three hundred years of advanced incest, all for this.
Gerald Bull wanted to use a very big gun to shoot a satellite into space. Saddam Hussein wanted a very big gun.