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Model Homes
A look inside miniature worlds created for the living, the dead, and the divine
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Pompeii's House of Dionysian Delights
Vivid frescoes in an opulent dining room celebrate the wild rites of the wine god
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Return to Serpent Mountain
Discovering the true origins of an enigmatic mile-long pattern in Peru’s coastal desert
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Himalayan High Art
In a remote region of India, archaeologists trace 4,000 years of history through a vast collection of petroglyphs
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What Happened in Goyet Cave?
New analysis of Neanderthal remains reveals surprisingly grim secrets
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Features May 1, 2011
The Sinking of the HMAS Sydney
The loss of the HMAS Sydney (II), pride of the Australian navy, has long been a source of pain and bewilderment. In waters off Western Australia in late 1941, following a successful tour in the Mediterranean, the Sydney encountered a ship claiming to be a Dutch freighter—actually the HSK Kormoran, a German raider that had menaced merchant ships for months.
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Features May 1, 2011
The Pacific Theater
On June 15, 1944, a massive U.S. invasion fleet stormed the beaches of Saipan, the largest of the Mariana Islands.
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Features May 1, 2011
London's Air-Raid Shelters and Lost Homes
During the Spanish Civil War, German and Italian forces had used aerial bombing raids to aid Francisco Franco's Nationalist side. In the run-up to WWII, British officials were frightened by the prospect of those very same tactics, so the U.K. passed legislation to begin digging air-raid shelters.
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Features May 1, 2011
The Archaeology of Internment
ARCHAEOLOGY, with its unique ability to discover details of daily life often left out of personal journals and official histories, is now being used to document the lives of WWII's interned, among them more than 100,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese, and millions of Jews, Gypsies, Communists, criminals, homosexuals, and political prisoners.
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Features May 1, 2011
The POW Camp Made Famous by The Great Escape
Designed to contain those who had already fled previous detainment, the German POW camp Stalag Luft III was built in the woods of modern-day Poland as far as possible from non-Axis territory.
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Features May 1, 2011
The Early Days of Nuclear Warfare
One of WWII's most infamous legacies is that it is the only war to have involved nuclear weapons.
