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Malagana, also known as the Malagana Treasure is an archaeological site of Colombia named after the sugarcane estate where it was accidentally discovered in 1992. During a few days after its discovery, the place was subject to a large-scale looting with a rough estimate of 4 tons of pre-Columbian artifacts illegally removed from the burial mounds.

Earlier in May the world celebrated the 72th anniversary of the allied forces’ victory against Hitler’s Nazi Germany in WWII. The day the Nazi’s surrendered has com e to be known as “Victor in Europe Day”.

Before being assembled into something recognizable at a museum, most dinosaur fossils look to the casual observer like nothing more than common rocks. No one, however, would confuse the over 110 million-year-old nodosaur fossil for a stone.

The fossil, being unveiled today in Canada’s Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, is so well preserved it looks like a statue.

The denial of science has entered the highest levels of government, and no matter what the data says, the U.S. promises to cease all efforts to curtail, or even study, climate change. Astrophysicist Katie Mack calls this retrenchment a form of “data nihilism,” writing in an exasperated tweet, “What is science? How can a thing be known?

Turkey's Doğan Group is holding a panel in Washington in a bid to globally fight against the fallacies and prejudices directed toward Islam.

The panel titled "Islamophobia: Overcoming Myths and Engaging in a Better Conversation" in cooperation with the U.S.-based Atlantic Council think tank and the Smithsonian Institution began at 11:00 a.m.

Turkey's Doğan Group will hold two international events on Oct. 20 in Washington in a bid to globally fight against the fallacies and prejudices directed toward Islam.

A panel titled "Islamophobia: Overcoming Myths and Engaging in a Better Conversation" will be organized in cooperation with the U.S.-based Atlantic Council think tank and the Smithsonian Institution.

BELGRADE - Vladimir Pistalo, the most translated Serbian writer, will give a one-hour lecture on Serbian culture and history at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington in mid-November, his Serbian publisher, Agora, announced on Wednesday.

US President Obama speaks during the dedication and grand opening of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

If you think your own face has changed through the years, look at this mind-numbing 90-second time lapse video that shows millions of years worth of evolution. Watch paleoartist John Gurche’s vision of his own direct ancestry in under 2 minutes. Learn how he draws on fossil discoveries and forensic techniques to create transfixing reconstructions of long-lost human ancestors.

The Statue of Liberty, a symbol of democracy and freedom that has greeted countless immigrants to the shores of America was inspired by a project representing an Arab woman guarding the Suez Canal according to a recent research.