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View of Trujillo between mountains and desert In Peru

Archaeologists Discover Site of One of History's Largest-Recorded Incidents of Child Sacrifice

The excavation uncovered the remains of more than 140 children and 200 llamas, who were sacrificed some 550 years ago in Peru's northern coast

This Mawson & Swan camera owned by Winslow Homer, ca. 1882, was gifted to Bowdoin College Museum of Art by Neal Paulsen.

Exhibition to Bring Winslow Homer’s Long-Lost Camera—and Photography—Into Focus

After four years of research, the new medium's impact on Homer's art will be explored this summer at Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Europe

A History Nerd Will Get to Spend the Summer Guiding Visitors Through 4,000 Years of History

Jarlshof in the Shetland Islands is looking for a guide to take visitors through its Stone, Bronze and Iron Age, Pictish, Viking and Scottish ruins

Located in Orange, Virginia, Montpelier was the plantation home of the Madison family. It's now a museum and historical site.

LiDAR Gives Researchers New Insight Into the Lives of Montpelier's Enslaved Population

Around 300 enslaved people lived and worked on James Madison's historic estate

Hank Willis Thomas sculpture

Five Things to See at Alabama’s New Memorial to Lynching Victims

The memorial, along with a new museum, exposes America's fraught legacy of racial violence from slavery to lynchings to mass incarceration

An image on view at the National Building Museum's Evicted exhibition

This Exhibition Uses $586 to Tell the Story of American Eviction

The amount is around what one of the subjects of sociologist Matthew Desmond’s book 'Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City' made in one month

A model of the planned artwork for downtown Albuquerque memorializing the landmark case that expanded the rights of Asian Americans.

Monument Marks Little-Remembered Case That Set Precedent for Asian Americans to Testify in Court

The history around the 'Territory of New Mexico v. Yee Shun' will be memorialized in the upcoming public work 'View from Gold Mountain'

"Untitled," a previously known James Castle work

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Eleven Never-Before-Seen Artworks Found in the Walls of James Castle's House

The renowned Idaho Outsider artist was known for squirreling his drawings and sculptures away in the walls and ceiling of his Boise home

The National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts

Taiwan Is Now Home to the World's Largest Performing Arts Center

The National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts encompasses five performance centers and spans 1.5 million square feet

Partial rendering of Psamtek I's statue

4,500 Newly Discovered Fragments Help Piece Together Massive Psamtik I Statue

The pieces gave researchers a better idea of the size and shape of the colossus

Marvel Studios’ “Black Panther” will usher in the return of cinema in Saudi Arabia

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Movie Theaters Will Be Legal in Saudi Arabia Again After 35 Years

'Black Panther' will be the first movie to be screened to mark the reopening of the country's cinemas

Ulysses Simpson Grant, Oil on canvas by Thomas Le Clear

Cool Finds

Ulysses S. Grant's 1849 Home in Detroit May Be Restored

The house he rented as a young officer is now boarded up and full of trash on the site of the former Michigan state fairgrounds

Cool Finds

This 13 Year Old Helped Find Viking Treasure In Germany

The silver jewelry and coins date to the reign of King Harald Bluetooth and may have been deposited during his flight from Denmark

A rendering of the planned memorial honoring Ed Johnson.

Public Sculpture in Tennessee Will Memorialize Lynching Victim

Chattanooga confronts its history with a planned memorial to a young black man named Ed Johnson who was murdered by a white lynch mob in 1906

Cool Finds

Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Casket Rediscovered in Former Wine Cellar

Parishioners at St. Michael's Church in Highgate hope to refurbish the crypt after identifying where exactly Coleridge's final resting place was

A new study reveals at which temperature the Giant Causeway were formed.

Europe

How Giant’s Causeway Formed Its Spectacular Array of Columns

Scientists recreated the process behind the formation's near-perfect hexagonal columns

Police are on the lookout for the woman who stole a $17,500 rock from a Yoko Ono exhibition.

Wanted: $17,500 Rock Lifted From Yoko Ono Installation

The rock was part of the ongoing interactive piece 'Yoko Ono: The Riverbed'

Judy Chicago's Sappho plate

Cool Finds

Now You Too Can Eat Off of Judy Chicago's Famous Feminist Dinnerware

Reproductions of four plate designs from "The Dinner Party" are available for the first time

This Colorful Exhibition Was Made for Instagram

Artist CJ Hendry's latest house-like installation assigned each room a distinct color

Archaeologists Used Drones to Find New Ancient Drawings in Peru

About 50 new examples of the Nazca lines had been hiding in plain sight

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