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Macron honors Marc Bloch at the Panthéon and denounces the spirit of defeat
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Emmanuel Macron delivered a speech Tuesday evening during the induction of historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch into the Panthéon. He called for fighting the spirit of defeat, which he described as a slow poison of public life.
The ancient city of Sardis in western Turkey has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List following nearly seven decades of continuous excavation. The designation recognizes the site's layered history from the Bronze Age through Ottoman rule and the sustained archaeological work that has revealed its significance.
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Researchers have extracted the full surviving text from a carbonised papyrus scroll using high-resolution scans and artificial intelligence. The scroll comes from the library at Herculaneum, buried by the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
DNA analysis has revealed the earliest known outbreak of plague more than 5000 years ago among hunter-gatherers near Lake Baikal in Siberia. The finding challenges long-held views that major disease outbreaks began only after the rise of farming.
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South Africa will mark the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto Student Uprising on Tuesday at a national commemoration in Johannesburg.
A state-affiliated agency drew criticism Tuesday after using a Chinese propaganda narrative of the Korean War in a promotional poster for an elementary school program.
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New research indicates that humans, rather than a glacier, probably transported the altar stone to Stonehenge from north-east Scotland. The 6-tonne sandstone monolith traveled about 750 kilometres to its current position at the monument's centre.
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