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The Defector Crewneck Sweatshirt Is Back In Stock

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<p>charismatic megafauna (they/them)</p>


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Sabrina Imbler

An ancient grave with a skeleton with both masculine and feminine signifiers.

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Can We Exhume Gender From The Long-Dead?

A flattened scroll of lead with words etched on it: “sathanas taleke belzebuk hinrik berith”

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This Month In Curse Tablets

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Barry Petchesky

Museum educator Sabine Liener-Kraft looks at the replica of a skull of a Neanderthal a day before the official opening of the new State Museum of Archeology in Chemnitz, Germany, 14 May 2014. About 6,000 exhibits shed light on 300,000 years of human history. The conversion of the building from a shopping center into the museum cost 31 million Euro with another 13,5 million for the permanent exhibition. Photo: HENDRIK SCHMIDT/dpa | usage worldwide (Photo by Hendrik Schmidt/picture alliance via Getty Images)

State Museum of Archeology opens in Chemnitz

Neanderthals Just Sat There And Watched Us Go Pew Pew Pew With Our Cool Bow And Arrow

DHI QAR, IRAQ - NOVEMBER 15: British Museum and Iraqi archaeologists carry out excavations in the ancient city of Girsu, the capital of the Kingdom of Lagash in Dhi Qar, Iraq on November 15, 2021. (Photo by Arshad Mohammed/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Excavation works in Iraq

I Desperately Want To Have A Beer At This Ancient Sumerian Bar

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