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Professor Lord Colin Renfrew, a pre-eminent British archaeologist of prehistoric civilizations including the Cycladic, has ...

In Hist 105, History of Eastern Civilizations we will focus on the history of Japan, China and Southeast Asia from a topical approach. We will study the social, cultural and religious backgrounds of ...

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A new paper suggests alien civilizations could travel the cosmos feeding on stars, and how we could detect them.

To demonstrate the capabilities of their diamond storage system, the researchers encoded a famous sequence of photographs.