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Some drug lords take their ostentatious lifestyle literally to the grave: a cemetery in Mexico is blooming with two-story tombs fitted with living rooms,...
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India’s only surviving opera house has been restored to its colonial-era glory, reopening to the public more than two decades after it closed in...
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The last of four boys who discovered the Lascaux cave paintings, a stunning display of prehistoric art in southwest France, will visit a new...
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Sculptor Helen Marten won the Turner Prize, at a London ceremony where the art world rallied against xenophobia and intolerance. The prize is awarded...
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Nestled in a labyrinth of streets in the heart of Morocco’s ancient city of Fez, stands the world’s oldest working library. Its sculpted dark...
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For centuries they stood, two monumental ancient statues of Buddha carved into the cliffs of Bamiyan, loved and revered by generations of Afghans —...
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The complete score of Gustav Mahler’s Second Symphony was sold in London for £4.5 million on Tuesday, a record for a musical manuscript, Sotheby’s...
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A “unique” 3,800-year-old figurine showing a seated person, apparently deep in thought, was unveiled in Israel on Wednesday. Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said that...
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A cross-dressing social media star dubbed “Africa’s male Barbie” has shot to fame in Nigeria, sparking a charged debate in a conservative country where...
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Some fight with machetes three-feet long, others are armed with daggers curved like the claws of big cats, while other combatants rely on only...