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In India, one of the most significant festivals is Diwali, or the Festival of Lights. It's a fiveday celebration that includes good food, fireworks, colored sand, and special candles and lamps.

Why did the Maya abandon their magnificent city of Chichen Itza? See All National Geographic Videos http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/?source=4001

Surrounded by contradictions, the mummy known as Unknown Man E has fascinated Egyptologists for over a century. Mystery of the Screaming Man : FRI NOVEMBER 21 9P et/pt : http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/expedition-week/3914/Overview...

A team of forensic experts is on a mission for Nefertiti and a lost dynasty. Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty : MON JULY 16 9P et/pt : http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/video/?source=4003

Religious rituals carried Cleopatra's message, "I am a deity, Caesar is a deity, and our child is the product of a divine union."

Join Mark B. Garrison, Alice Pratt Brown Distinguished Professor of Art History, Trinity University, as he discusses the role of fire in Persian religions, including Zoroastrianism. Using glyphs and reliefs from Persepolis, he outlines the...

http://www.metmuseum.org/82nd-and-fifth/fine-dining Explore this object: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/silver-spoon-and-fork-roman-2006.514.3 "It's the smaller objects that really speak to you directly as an individual, as a person."...

http://www.metmuseum.org/82nd-and-fifth/pensive Explore this object: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/pensive-bodhisattva-korea-2003.222 "It's more about contemplating the notion of a being or a world that is beyond the one that...

http://www.metmuseum.org/82nd-and-fifth/enigma Explore this object: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/canopic-jar-with-a-lid-in-the-shape-of-a-royal-womans-head-egypt-upper-egypt-thebes-valley-of-the "It seems to me that aesthetically...

http://www.metmuseum.org/82nd-and-fifth/enamored Explore this object: http://82nd-and-fifth.metmuseum.org/bronze-statue-of-eros-sleeping-greek-43.11.4 It's so quiet that you don't think of it as so radical, but actually it's very rare...