Archaeologists discovered a vast network of 14th-century villages in the Amazon — and they might be arranged like the cosmos.

A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

One of my favorite Bob Dylan songs is “Tangled Up in Blue,” in part because of this set of lines, both literary and spiritual: She lit a burner on the stove And offered me a pipe. “I thought ...

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