Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

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Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

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Dozens of mysterious structures across the Northern Hemisphere – some nearly 5,000 years old – align precisely to frame the rising and setting Sun on midwinter's shortest day.

An 1851 ink-and-watercolor gift drawing titled A Type of Mother Hannah’s Pocket Handkerchief by Polly Jane Reed, a Shaker in New Lebanon, New York. Andrews Collection, Hancock Shaker Village, ...