The video examines archaeological findings from ancient China, Rome, the Middle East and South America. It explains how some people were enclosed underground with rulers or placed in ritual chambers.

One of the jewels of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection is a violin made by Andrea Amati in Cremona, Italy, in the ...

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Opera Philadelphia and the Penn Museum announced a partnership connecting the museum's newly transformed Egypt Galleries with ...

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Modern Halloween traditions draw on five millennia of diverse cultural rituals, including the Celtic festival of Samhain, the ...

Omar ibn Said wrote his story in Arabic while enslaved in North Carolina in the 1800s. The autobiography inspired a Pulitzer Prize-winning opera by Giddens and “Get Out” composer Michael Abels, ...

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave remarks in Athens, where he argued in favor of Trump’s nationalist agenda for ‘the West to maintain its place at the head of ...