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Researchers in Britain have proposed a new theory for Stonehenge's origins: it may have been started as a giant burial ground for elite families.

A popular snack or meal accompaniment worldwide, French fries have always been considered to be, well, French. However, it seems Belgium might have come up with the idea first.

Turin - Italy's National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Development published a final report last month on the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, after five years of experiments and studies.

Harvard scientists have conducted research to further the understanding between morality and religion. Their findings suggest that religion is a way of expressing one's moral intuitions.

French scientists have found oil-based paintings in caves used by nomadic Buddhist monks in the 7th century in Afghanistan. These paintings are the oldest ever found anywhere.

Mother Goose was the pen name of Charles Perrault's collection of fairy tales Histoires ou contes du temps passés, avec des moralités. John Newbery published an English translation of the nursery rhymes in 1700.

History of religion, how it started and where it is going