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In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine received a vision from God: if he embraced Christianity he would win. His ...

That could place the ancestors of Homo sapiens—modern humans—outside Africa, an idea which flips everything palaeontologists ...

Known as "tulas," the 60 artifacts are only the second discovery of this size to be found in Australia. Researchers think ...

Few scenes in the Christian imagination are as iconic as the three travelers kneeling before the infant Jesus, their camels ...

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