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Prince William has met the Māori Queen. This is a ceremonial title created in the nineteenth century to unite the Māori tribes. In September 2024, after the death of King Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII, a council of 12 elders chose his youngest daughter, Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō,
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When Yuri Knorozov was refused an entry visa to Mexico in June 1956, his senior colleague Sergei Alexandrovich Tokarev, head of the Department of Ethnography at Moscow State University, explained to the young decipherer of the Maya script: "The Mexican government still obeys the Washington imperialists and assumes that
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The children whom the Incas offered in sacrifice were given alcohol and plant-based substances that dulled the senses before they died. This was shown by a toxicological analysis of the hair and nails of eight mummies from Peru and Argentina, which are about 500 years old. The sacrificial rite
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The Briton Katharine Round has made a documentary about Kamaishi, a town on the Pacific coast of Iwate Prefecture that was engulfed by the tsunami in March 2011. Round set up cameras in the cabs of taxis and left them running. In the frame are four drivers, Toru Konno, Yoshiji
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In Evgeny Vodolazkin's novel "Laurus" there is a scene in which a girl, Ustina, who has come from a plague-stricken region, finds herself in the hut of the protagonist, Arseny, and he gives her water "to wash off the grime". And then the
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Let me tell you about an interesting book. The University of Nebraska Press has published Tilton and Grace Entoka: An Osage Story by the writer Anthony Lookout. The Osage are one of the indigenous peoples of North America; the book is devoted to Native storytellers and appears in the series
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Israeli border guards refused to admit the American rabbi Alissa Wise at the airport and put her on a plane back to the United States. Wise had been leading a delegation of rabbis who were travelling to the West Bank of the Jordan River to help Palestinians gather the olive
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In the state of Yucatán a Maya city has been discovered that its inhabitants did not abandon for several hundred years after its political collapse Around AD 900, up to 19,000 people may have lived in Aké. In the following centuries drought, war and violence brought political upheaval to
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Alexandr Diachenko of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Detlef Gronenborn of the Leibniz Centre for Archaeology in Mainz have built a mathematical model that links the diversity of pottery ornament to population size, the organisation of pottery production and the exchange of information. They compared the pottery
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Endocannibalism is the scientific name for the eating of the remains of deceased members of one's own social group or family. The Yanomami of the Amazon add the ashes of a dead relative's bones to banana soup and consume it so that the spirit of the
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I have been seized by an unbounded respect for this Kurdish warrior with his cat, in a photograph of 1870
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Portrait of a family with reindeer, 1910s