Massive Levantine-Egyptian stone head of a pharaoh, Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 B.C. Likely from a monumental sphinx, wearing royal 'nemes' headdress ...

Amelia Neath looks at some of the dark places people are drawn to where tragedies have occurred, such as Chernobyl, Hiroshima and the killing fields in Cambodia ...

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Rare and exceptional artworks and relics from the world’s most acclaimed cultures will cross the auction block along with ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present ...

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These palaces not only testify to the "golden age of American railroading ... landmark now home to the Cincinnati History Museum and the Museum of Natural History & Science.