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Versailles was a palace of science, as Anna Ferrari shows in this stimulating and innovative study, accompanying a dazzling ...

Canberra is starting to come back to life after a sleepy summer break with 20+ things happening around town this week.

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Pompeii: Inside a Lost City at the National Museum of Australia depicts life in the flourishing Roman city of Pompeii before ...

Ten years ago, scientists discovered ancient hunting camps beneath the lake. Now, DNA samples from a submerged peat bog could ...

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Aerial mapping exposed an entire outer area of the 'mega fortress' marked by stone structures and a long, winding ...