Click Here to Read: Lost cities of the Amazon: how science is revealing ancient garden towns hidden in the rainforest: Archaeologists using 3D mapping are uncovering the remains of thousands of green metropolises with composted gardens, fisheries, and forests groomed into orchards By Mac Margolis in Rio de Janeiro and Belém, Brazil on the Guardian website on February 6, 2025.
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Click Here to Read: Cecile Richards, a Dynamic Leader of Planned Parenthood, Dies at 67: She oversaw the United States’ largest provider of reproductive health care and sex education from 2006 to 2018 by By Penelope Green and Remy Tumin in the New York Times on January 20, 2025.
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden pose for a photo with Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood, and her husband Kirk Adams after awarding Richards the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Wednesday, November 20, 2024, in the State Dining Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Erin Scott)Image: The White House, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Drones Uncovered a 3,000-Year-Old Hidden Mega-Fortress in the Mountains: The massive fortress is over 40 times bigger than they initially thought. By Tim Newcom on the Popular Mechanics website on January 15, 2025.
Caucasus Mountains. Image: Тимур Агиров Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Jews in the Civil Rights Movement: Nowhere did Jews identify themselves more forthrightly with the liberal avant-garde than in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.By Howard Sachar on the My Jewish Learning website.
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Joachim Prinz pictured, 1963 Image: Unknown. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Who built Europe’s first cities? Clues about the urban revolution emerge: Around 6,000 years ago, a group known as the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture developed egalitarian settlements north of the Black Sea and created the region’s earliest urban centres. Then, after two millennia, they vanished. By Emma Marris on the Nature website on January 7, 2025.
A map of the approximate extent of the Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypillian culture.Image: Saukkomies at English Wikipedia. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: How Archaeologists Discovered Europe’s Oldest-Known Book, Revealing Never-Before-Seen Insights Into Ancient Religion and Philosophy: Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact by Teresa Nowakowski on the Smithsonian Magazine website on January 15, 2025
Derveni papyrus. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: How AI is unlocking ancient text —and could rewrite history: From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data than they’ve had in centuries By Jo Marchant on the Nature website on December 30, 2024.
Sumerian account of silver for the govenor (background removed) . Image: Gavin.collins Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
