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While Europeans eventually discovered the impressive moai statues for which the Rapa Nui are best known, they also stumbled ...

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It's a debate that goes back generations. Luminaria or farolito? No matter what they're called, it's a holiday tradition that ...

Henry Cole, the founding director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK sent the first Christmas card in 1843.

The human use of fire, attested by evidence from Africa, goes back around 1.6m years. But, hitherto, the oldest signs of ...

A team of scientists led by the British Museum have unearthed the earliest known evidence of fire making, dating back over 400,000 years, in a field in Suffolk.

The Byzantine Empire has marked world history in many significant ways, contributing ingenious inventions still in use to ...

Today, it is hard to imagine a world without recorded audio, and for the most part that started with Edison’s invention of ...

This Is a Story' to 'The Kingdom of Pylos,' there was no shortage of captivating art at Southern California museums in 2025.

Unilever exits ice cream as TMICC launches as world’s largest ice cream company with €7.9bn revenue, 21% market share, and ...

This season, culture wars and their origins are dissected, fascism and its opponents are profiled, and enclaves of the rich and famous are infiltrated.