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In Chunkankadai, Tamil Nadu, pottery is not just a craft — it's heritage, memory, and quiet resistance. Here, every pot is ...
Elkhorn Earth Skills Gathering is gearing up to transform the Utah wilderness into a hands-on classroom where ancient skills, ...
How did the Greeks explain the fact that their gods no longer interacted much with humans during the historical era?
When Bonnie Seymour took a job as assistant curator of Nashville's Parthenon museum, one of the first things she did was to look through the collections. Among paintings by American artists and ...
Nestled on the coast of the island of Euboea (Evia), the ancient city of Eretria was one of the most influential centers in ...
Genetic studies point to female-centered living arrangements in Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Yet, power may not have rested solely ...
Sealed in a pottery vessel for over 4,500 years, the skeleton of an ancient Egyptian craftsman has now yielded the first ...
When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...
Secrets have been unearthed about the people who lived thousands of years ago in M.Flandia. In what is being described as a ...
Spotting a rare foreigner in the southern Syrian city of Nawa, Khalil approaches with a business proposal: bring him a “very ...
Workers laying new natural gas pipeline in Lima, Peru, unexpectedly found something else entirely natural: A 1,000-year-old mummy. The find occurred just 20 inches below the surface, in what was ...
Gijs van Hensbergen, , trans. from the French by Linda Asher. . HarperCollins, $24 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-06-019775-9 Twenty-five years ago, Vernant's grandson begged his grandfather to tell him some ...