Long before the fiery pits and pitchforks of Christian Hell haunted the religious imagination, the afterlife in ancient Hebrew thought was a muted ... but it codified an emotional and visual grammar ...

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In the early 1970s, South African summer sun searing his back, 14-year-old Stephen Townley Bassett dutifully followed his uncle into the shade offered by one of myriad caves dotted among the ...

Hidden for over 100 million years in Brazil’s limestone-rich Crato Formation, researchers recently uncovered the oldest known specimen of a now-extinct predator known as the “hell ant.” ...

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in a bid to disrupt the trafficking of cultural items and ancient artifacts across borders. The latest operation led to 80 arrests and the seizure of more than 37,700 items such as paintings ...

These findings suggest Paros didn’t just supply the raw materials for ancient Greek art—the island was also helping shape the aesthetics for which Greek civilization would be known for millennia.

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