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Archaeologists uncover a 2,600-year-old Kubaba Temple at Oluz Mound in Turkey, revealing rare evidence of Iron Age rituals.

Uxmal is one of the crown jewels of Puuc architecture, a style of Maya building that flourished in the Yucatán over 1,000 ...

Rock art found in Indonesia dates to at least 67,800 years ago, representing the earliest known cave art made by humans.

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Handprints on the walls of Indonesian caves may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back at least 67,800 years.

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The difference between wealthy people today and the upper middle class in the 90s is the wealth gap. In the 90s, more people could afford some of the basic status symbols they sought out in their ...

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