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The British Museum has secured a rare Henry VIII love pendant for permanent display after raising 3.5 million pounds ($4.8 million) to keep the piece from being sold privately.
The heart-shaped gold pendant, linked to the early years of Henry VIII’s marriage to Katherine of Aragon, features their initials, the Tudor rose and a pomegranate design. The acquisition confirms the institution’s commitment to preserving one of the...

A strange white substance found recently on the heads and necks of mummies in China has turned out to be the world’s oldest cheese.
Scientists first found this substance about twenty years ago on mummies buried at the Xiaohe Cemetery in China’s Tarim Basin. After years of research, recent DNA tests have revealed that this mystery material is kefir cheese....

Many ancient Greek philosophers dreamed up paradoxes and puzzles to prove their worldviews and theories, but one ancient thinker stands out above the rest. That would be Zeno.
Zeno of Elea, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and student of Parmenides, was known for his rejection of the existence of time, space, and motion. He developed a series of paradoxes in an attempt to disprove these concepts....

Archaeologists have uncovered a rare ancient river port beneath the historic Greek city of Trabzon (Greek: Tραπεζοῦς) on Turkey’s Black Sea coast — a city founded in the 8th century BCE.
The structure, buried nearly eight meters (about 26 feet) below the modern city, is connected to the Kuzgundere Stream and is now recognized as one of only three known river harbors identified worldwide....