Picture it if you will. A ceremony in the oldest of settings but with all of the action caught on a flickering sea of cameras and smart phones. Winter torchbearers clad in hats, thick trousers and ...
More than 11,000 years ago, maybe even more than 20,000 years ago, a 14 foot, 8-10 ton Columbian Mammoth, who had perhaps traveled from Alaska, and the Yukon, across the mid-western United States to ...
SAQQARA, Egypt — Archaeologists unveiled the tombs Tuesday of a pharaonic butler and a scribe that have been buried for more than 3,000 years - proof, they say, that Egypt's sands still have secrets ...
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