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MICHAEL Strauss issues a challenge: Try picking up his pride and joy, a gold-and-silver Rothschild menorah. The visitor tries with one hand and fails but remains fascinated by the beautiful piece made ...

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For a religion that has never been static, Judaism has been utilizing many of the same outdated, unchanging ritual objects for what seems like eternity. Judaica has never kept pace with Judaism’s ever ...

Archaeologists working at the Templo Mayor in Mexico City recovered a single offering box containing roughly 4,000 marine ...

A 3,800-year-old ritual offering found at Peñico in Peru reveals how Caral civilization, symbols and trade networks survived.

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"Today, China's classical antiquity is often studied through recovered artifacts, but before this practice became widespread, scholars instead reconstructed the distant past through classical texts ...

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