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The Divinity of Jesus
In the decades of the 20s and 30s of the 1st century CE, a Jew from the town of Nazareth in the Galilee began preaching that the God of Israel would soon intervene in history, restoring that nation to God's original plan and glory. From this...
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Gobekli Tepe - the World's First Temple?
Located in modern Turkey, Göbekli Tepe is one of the most important archaeological sites in the world. The discovery of this stunning 10,000 year old site in the 1990s CE sent shock waves through the archaeological world and beyond...
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Bantu Migration
The Bantu migration from their origins in southern West Africa saw a gradual population movement sweep through the central, eastern, and southern parts of the continent starting in the mid-2nd millennium BCE and finally ending before 1500...
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Drawings of Middle Palaeolithic Tools: Points & Scrapers
Drawings of stone tools belonging to the Middle Palaeolithic (sometimes called 'Mousterian') industries, found from Europe and the Near East to Africa between approximately 250,000 and 30,000 years ago. It is associated with archaic homo...
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Tabun Cave
Tabun Cave in Israel, which is associated with (among others) Neanderthal remains and tools.
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Gildas
Gildas (c. 500-570 CE) was a Romano-British monk, known primarily for a work entitled De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, translated as On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain. Gildas' work is a polemical sermon recounting British history while...
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Painting of a Horse, Lascaux Cave
Horse depicted in Lascaux Cave in the Dordogne, southwestern France, dated to the Upper Palaeolithic period.
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Wounded Bull, Man & Bird, Lascaux Cave
Cave art in the Lascaux Cave in the Dordogne region, southwestern France. Dated to the Upper Palaeolithic period. It depicts a wounded aurochs bull, a man and a bird.
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Woolly Mammoths
Artist's vision of woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) in a late Pleistocene landscape in northern Spain. Mammoths were hunted by prehistoric humans.
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Wooly Mammoth
Wooly Mammoth, as shown at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria, British Columbia.