Gold was the first attraction, but late in the 1500s the Portuguese became obsessed with the idea that there were silver mines in Africa.

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A selection of Inuit artifacts returned by the Vatican is now at the Canadian Museum of History, after First Nations, Inuit ...

The discovery of the settlements over the years has led to a new understanding of the Asia Minor and Anatolia regions.

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Discover 12 religious leaders who changed the world. From Jesus to Buddha, see how these figures shaped history, laws, and ...

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Russian Yuri Knorozov cracked the previously undecipherable Maya code, and remarkably, did it long before he ever visited ...

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Voices from the Shoah Tapes," is a pale shadow of a much fuller exhibition on Claude Lanzmann on view in Berlin.