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The 2,000-year-old geoglyphs offer clues to the ancient Nazca people and their rituals.

Scientists are going gaga over the earliest inscription declaring “Jesus is God,” claiming that this 1,800-year-old engraving could change our understanding of Christianity.

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Anthropologists have spent decades documenting a mysterious collection of symbols etched into the Peruvian desert, depicting everything from human decapitation and domesticated animals to ...

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A link exists between 6,000-year-old engravings on cylindrical seals used on clay tablets and cuneiform, the world’s oldest ...

Eleven years ago, Typhoon Yolanda devastated the Philippines, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. The hardest-hit ...