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Smooching & herpes inseparable for more than 4,000 years

Troels Pank Arbøll & Sophie Lund Rasmussen examined cuneiform writings from Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq & Syria, looking for references to kissing

Watch the remarkable ancient method of casting bronze faces (video)

Wonder no more...

Ray Stevenson: ‘Thor’ actor has passed away

Stevenson died Sunday, four days shy of his birthday

Mysterious white, powdery substance found inside 3,000-year-old ruins in Armenia

Archaeologists in Armenia have unearthed the remains of a 3,000-year-old bakery that still contains heaps of wheat flour.

Explore Pythagorio in Samos, where the Great Ancient Mind Pythagoras was born

A wonder of the ancient world

Archaeologists discover lost world of 417 ancient Mayans cities buried in remote jungle, connected by miles of “superhighways”

The discovery of a network of roads & cities, hydraulic systems & agricultural infrastructure suggests that communities living in C. America were now more advanced than given credit for

Roman carvings of a smiley face and a phallus found in Spain

Dating back to the Bronze Age, archaeologists have recovered pottery, tools, and ornaments, suggesting this site was an ancient trading hub

Remains of 7,000-year-old sunken stone road discovered off Croatia’s coast (video)

Archaeologists discovered a late-Neolithic road submerged underwater off the coast of Croatia.

The origins of kissing relocated to Mesopotamia

Evidence from various sources indicates that kissing was a well-established tradition even earlier than previously thought

The Beatles’ and the Stones’ dirty secrets by the woman who kept them all

She’s one of the voices in Hey Jude’s interminable chorus; she’s the “mystery woman” embracing Keith Richards on the cover of the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street...

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