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The Baroque artwork stopped an auctioneer in his tracks during a routine property visit. The newly discovered piece will go ...

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The limestone chamber is marked with inscriptions identifying the deceased and honoring the deity Jupiter. Officials say it's ...

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Archivists discovered notes for the project, called "The Spectator," in the artist's New York City office after he died in ...

New research finds that 79 percent of Fiji's endemic ant species—those that are native to and only found on the ...