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As the Arab Spring continues to degenerate, word that after a major internal review the Obama administration has adopted a more focused, les...

Archaeology and history go together like gasoline and sugar. For over a century historians have been looking to archaeology to fill in the...

I am convinced that this technology is going to revolutionize our economy: Vanilla, saffron, patchouli. For centuries, spices and flavo...

Who doesn't need a candle that melts to reveal a creepy skeleton inside? They're called PyroPets.

Rep. Jim Sensenbreenner (R-Wisconsin), one of the main sponsors of the Patriot Act, has authored a bill to limit some of the NSA's dome...

 British haunter of abandoned places.  More here.

It was a perfect Fall afternoon, and nobody was answering my emails, so I took a long lunchtime walk across Rock Creek into Georgetown. ...

Taurodant is a small city in southwestern Morocco, a new destination for people who think Marrakech has too many tourists and expats. ...

If you got stung by a bark scorpion, you would probably howl with pain; their stings are said to be among the most painful of all insect a...

Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omar (1211-1279) was an important official in China under the Mongol emperors of the Yuan Dynasty. There is a brie...

Japanese master of woodblock prints, born 1948. Sankei-en Wisteria , 2011. Hatsuyuki , 2005. Moss Garden , 2012. Hagur...

Here's an interesting family business: for four generations, the Gibsons of Britain's Scilly Isles have made a profession of photo...

An amazing fossil was unearthed in China last year. It is the imprint of a common marine organism, Alalcomenaeus , but even though it is 5...

I'm not sure where this came from -- wherever that was, it seems to have come unmoored and gone wandering around the Internet on its o...

A jade figurine in the tomb of a very early ruler at Tak'alik Ab'aj archaeological site in Retalhuleu, south of Guatemala City, on...

MANY of the tales in this book were told me by one Paddy Flynn, a little bright-eyed old man, who lived in a leaky and one-roomed cabin in t...

Swedish archaeologists have announced the discovery of two long alignments of wooden posts in the Iron Age cult site of Uppsala. One of t...