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For nearly 200 years, HBCUs have educated Black Americans. Now, a new exhibition highlights special objects from five ...

Long before Western astrology, the Chinese zodiac helped organize years, beliefs, and social life. Here’s how the system of 12 animals evolved over the centuries.

Archaeologists uncover a 2,600-year-old Kubaba Temple at Oluz Mound in Turkey, revealing rare evidence of Iron Age rituals.

Along West Africa's slave coast, a painful past is being preserved — and marketed — raising questions about memory, tourism and profit.

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A 5500-year-old genome recovered from human skeletal remains in Colombia may give insights into the early evolution of ...

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have created a new way to improve our understanding of the ...

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