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Two decades after construction began, the Grand Egyptian Museum, which houses more than 100,000 ancient treasures, will host ...

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Far from bringing any sense of national cohesion, St George’s Day this year seems to have set politicians and commentators at ...

In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains:“Heaven has gone blind!” Thousands of starving farmers, ...

India’s history is a tapestry woven with the rise and fall of magnificent cities, some of which have faded from modern maps ...

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