ATBAI DESERT, SUDAN—A new survey of Eastern Sudan’s Atbai Desert mapped hundreds of previously unidentified […]

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In 1461, a young poet named François Villon was thrown into a pit-dungeon beneath this castle on the orders of the Bishop of Orléans. He had already been convicted of manslaughter and robbery in Paris. Here at Meung, there was no trial — just a cell in the dark, somewhere beneath the Loire Valley countryside.

He survived. And when King Louis XI passed through Meung that October and ordered a…

The Urartian (Biaynian) tomb of Yerevan is located at 34 Arshakunyats Avenue, within the premises of the former “Autoaggregate” factory, now part of the “Yerevan Mall” shopping center. Its discovery dates back to 1984 during construction activities. The excavation and study of this site were conducted by the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, led by…

Experimental metal pioneers return with their darkest, most gothic record yet, kicking off March 25 in Philadelphia.

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Once the ancient capital of Caria, Bodrum (then Halicarnassus) was the birthplace of the father of history, Herodotus, and hosted one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. Nowadays, the modern city of Bodrum is steeped in its ancient past and ruins can be found through out. However, one place you may not be expecting to find some of its cultural heritage is in…