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The world is full of bizarre and mysterious artifacts. While many of them are almost certainly hoaxes or have improbable theories attached to them, many

Should some dinosaurs be renamed? Its the job of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature to decide.

Michelangelo’s monumental Epifania is a supreme example of his draughtsmanship and, at more than two metres high, it is also one of the largest Renaissance works on paper. Now the 1550s depiction of the Virgin Mary, Christ Child and St John the Baptist will be seen for the first time at the British Museum in a repaired and revived state after undergoing conservation so painstaking that it lasted six years.

Here's why ancient Egyptians buried their dead with certain grave goods, such as the "Book of the Dead," gold tongues and scarabs.

David Fromkin on the legacy of T. E. Lawrence.