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New research reveals how the invention of a crucial Ice Age technology helped humans defend against extreme cold during ancient global migrations.

A rare 1,700-year-old discovery by archaeologists in Turkey highlights the use of advanced engineering of the Roman-era.

Its increasingly contradictory weaponization exposes how little it has ever had to do with the Jews.

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