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Discover ancient heritage and innovation at 10 museums where kids can learn, play, and escape the summer heat.
Hidden in Tennessee’s southwest corner sits a wilderness playground that feels worlds away from everyday life. The centerpiece is a gorgeous 35-acre lake that reflects the sky like a giant mirror.
Market Square houses many important buildings, including the Rathaus (the Town Hall) and Bremen Cathedral, as well as ...
The capital of West Germany from 1949 until 1990, when Germany was divided in two, things to do in Bonn include discovering ...
Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...
Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade ...
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The Truth Behind the Children’s Crusade
The Children’s Crusade is one of the most emotional and mysterious stories in medieval history. But did thousands of innocent ...
Are you as assured as Ashurbanipal about your knowledge of Mesopotamia, or as dim as Nimrud?
For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...
Earlier archeological evidence has shown trade links between Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as similarities in pottery-making ...
Ancient Rome was a rigidly hierarchical society where the ruling elite stigmatized everyone who had to work with their hands. Yet Roman workers still found ways to resist exploitation through strikes ...
The watermelon has long inspired artists, such as Giuseppe Recco's Still Life With Fruit (1634-1695). The first color sketches of the red-fleshed, sweet watermelon in Europe can be found in a ...