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Updated Feb. 16, 2024 at 12:45 p.m. British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered King Tutankhamun’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt in November 1922. The tomb was opened on this day in 1923. Why was the discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb so important? The discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb was significant because it […]
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On This Day – November 4
SPOTLIGHT: WHY ARMENIAN GENOCIDE MATTERS NOW As the country responsible for the Holocaust, Germany understands better than others the importance of acknowledging and atoning for the wrongs in your past. But today, German lawmakers will confront another country’s historical crime, as a debate opens on a resolution that would officially qualify the 1915 mass deportations […]
NANTERRE — He’s got Palmyra on his mind. Sitting as his desk in the judicial police office in Nanterre, near Paris, Ludovic Ehrhart is staring at his holiday pictures: four black-and-white snapshots of the ancient Syrian city. He put them up last summer, just after ISIS started to destroy it. He’s been to Palmyra twice, […]