Arts & Culture
British Museum and British Petroleum are bedfellows again
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The British Museum has announced a new £50 million partnership with the oil company BP after an apparent break between the two institutions earlier this year.
Arts & Culture
Archeologists uncover an 18 tonne lammasu – for the second time
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Archeologists have uncovered a 2700 year old state of a lammasu, an Assyrian guardian deity, near modern Mosul, Iraq. But the story of how an artifact known to scholars since the 1800s was finally excavated shows how archeology and heritage must contend with war, looting, and political turmoil.
Culture
Ásatrú and Human Rights
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Maybe it’s not such a great idea to turn to writers from 1,000, or 2,000, or 3,000 years before the United Nations publicly published the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for teachings on the universality of human rights.
Asia
Sea Goddess’s floating temple gets new home
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A floating temple to the Chinese sea goddess Tin Hau, also known as Mazu, has been moved to a permanent location and will undergo an extensive renovation.
News
Ramaswamy joins TikTok and promptly cursed
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Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy just joined TikTok to the dismay of WitchTok. Curses follow.