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British Museum exhibition, Egypt after the pharaohs, will feature the Codex Sinaiticus, one of the most important books in the world
The Codex Sinaiticus has only left the British Library building once before, during the second world war. Photograph: British Library...

From the first time Christian children settle into Sunday school classrooms, an image of Jesus Christ is etched into their minds. In North America he is most often depicted as being taller than his disciples, lean, with long, flowing, light brown hair...

Mui Thomas from Hong Kong is a very particular young woman. Simply by the fact that she has already reached her 22nd year of life. Mui was born with ichthyosis graves. Due to this hereditary skin disease, the skin grows 10-times faster than normal. Consequently...

Symbols and unity are beautiful, elephriends. The author is urging, merely, that we can slow down.
Some of the most hateful and bigoted comments we’ve received today have been from folks, understandably angry, with red-white-blue profile pics. There’s nothing wrong with them, as a symbol of unity and grief and love. But we can do more: and we must...