The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller collection from Africa, the Ancient Americas and Oceania reopens with a pantheon of historic art stars.

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Sifting through the tan dirt of northern Iraq, archaeologists looked at the remnants of an ancient empire’s capital city.

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New research shows that dentine, the inner layer of teeth that transmits sensory information to nerves inside the pulp, first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish.

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South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, ...

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