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The Italian capital gathered to honor Valentino Garavani at a funeral marking the passing of one of the country’s most ...

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The transformation of the Roman Empire into what modern historians call Byzantium was not a single event but a gradual ...

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Archaeologists discovered an exceptionally well-preserved Stone Age dog skeleton buried with a 5,000-year-old bone dagger in a Swedish bog southwest of Stockholm.

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