The Minoans of Bronze Age Crete were unique in the Mediterranean for their rituals, including those pertaining to the snake ...

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The 20-centimeter glass phallus, dating from the 16th or 17th century, was discovered in a two-meter-deep latrine shaft connected to the living quarters of a noblewomen's religious house in Herford.

What started as a reusable bag has morphed into a badge of taste, identity, and insider status—proof that hype knows no price ...

That’s exactly what happens when you first lay eyes on the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. It’s not every day you find a six-story concrete castle rising from the landscape of a charming ...

Researchers have long speculated about the purpose and meaning of pointy “head cones” depicted in Egyptian art. Now they’ve ...

Imagine stumbling upon an object so strange, so impossible to explain, that it throws everything you thought you knew about ...

To understand this you have to travel back to the Middle Ages, when it was believed that the shoe, especially the horseshoe hanging over the doors, ward off witches and sorcerers. The tradition is ...

Abstract: Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence (NeSyAI) is a paradigm that combines neural networks with symbolic reasoning, building upon foundations laid in the 1990s and early 2000s, yet gaining ...

Across fashion, there is a growing shift away from overt luxury and towards objects that communicate inner life. The ...