Cultures News

An Australian entrepreneur hopes to open a Stonehenge replica by the December 21 solstice, just in time for New Age revelers.

March 25, 2008
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At a ceremony in Olympia, Greece, the torch was lit for the start of an 85,000-mile (137,000-kilometer) journey to Beijing, China, for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

March 24, 2008
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A 70-year-old tortoise gives birth, a sandstorm blankets Beijing, Indians celebrate spring in living color, and more.

March 21, 2008
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As oil development surges in the Peruvian Amazon, remote rain forest tribes are suffering both physically and socially as they're forced into contact with the outside world, rights groups say.

March 21, 2008
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In Northern Kamchatka in Russia, indigenous people hold an annual festival to celebrate reindeer, complete with racing, wrestling, and cooking competitions.

March 20, 2008
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The Iraq National Museum—which saw many of its ancient treasures looted following the 2003 U.S-led invasion—will not reopen to the public after renovations are complete, officials announced.

March 19, 2008
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Iran is preparing for Persian New Year, which begins with Thursday's spring equinox. The celebrations, called "Nowrūz," last 13 days, according to the millennia-old tradition.

March 19, 2008
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A "dry fog" that muted the sun's rays in A.D. 536 and blanketed the Earth with a cooling ash was triggered by the eruption of a supervolcano, scientists say.

March 19, 2008
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More than 2,000 ill-got pre-Islamic artifacts have been handed over to Iraq's national museum from an area southeast of Baghdad, an Iraqi cultural official says.

March 18, 2008
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The recent slaying of three lions and up to four elephants in southern Kenya reflects the increasingly heated conflict between wildlife and the country's growing human population. Warning: graphic photo

March 18, 2008

Hundreds died when Australia's H.M.A.S. Sydney and the German D.K.M. Kormoran sank in battle in 1941. Finally found, the wreckages may hold clues to those deaths.

March 17, 2008
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The artist may have helped illustrate the only known copy of a legendary Renaissance chess treatise.

March 17, 2008
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Dressed more conservatively than most of her international counterparts, Afghanistan's only female Olympic athlete—a runner—hopes to bring home her country's first medal.

March 17, 2008
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Archaeologists believe the new find near Cusco, Peru, predates the Incan empire.

March 17, 2008
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Wild weather batters the United Kingdom, an imperial palace reopens in Rome, Brazilians fight police with bows and arrows, and more.

March 14, 2008

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