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The new Bruce Springsteen biopic uses the diner as a cinematic device, and a symbol of a state that has been called the ...

When a society collapses, humans need places to gather. A 5,000-year-old ceremonial site shows how ancient people dealt with ...

Ice Age Europeans carved the same 32 symbols across an entire continent. Were they decorating caves—or building the first written language?

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After the collapse of the Chalcolithic culture around 3500 BCE, people in Jordan’s Murayghat transformed their way of life, shifting from domestic settlements to ritual landscapes filled with dolmens, ...

Ek’ Balam is one of the most exceptionally preserved Mayan archeological zones, and a new discovery literally sets its incredible history into stone.

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