The Bronze Age artifact is of an “extremely rare” kind, researchers say.
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Maya Pontone (she/her) is a Staff News Writer at Hyperallergic. Originally from Northern New Jersey, she currently resides in Brooklyn, where she covers daily news, both within and outside New York City. Maya received her BS in journalism with a political science minor from Emerson College in Boston, MA.
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DC’s National Cathedral Unveils Kerry James Marshall Stained-Glass Windows
Titled Now and Forever, the new designs honor the ongoing pursuit for racial equality in a country built on systemic oppression.
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Melting Glacial Ice in Norway Reveals Intact Bronze-Age Arrow
“Most of the ice here in Norway will be gone in this century. You can say that we are melting back in time,” said archaeologist Lars Holger Pilø.
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Monument to Japanese-Canadian History Dismantled in Ontario
Locals expressed anger and sadness over the city’s decision to remove the Temple Bell less than a month after its creator architect Raymond Moriyama’s death.
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The Painting of a Murderess That Scandalized Victorian Audiences
“The Laboratory” by John Collier is an example of a “problem picture,” paintings focused on characters caught in moral dilemmas that incited gossip amongst viewers.
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Moss-Covered Activists Protest Penn Station Neighborhood Over-Development
A proposed plan to expand the train station and “revitalize” the Midtown area would evict hundreds of residents, activists say.
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Archaeologists Find Remarkably Intact 2,000-Year-Old Child’s Shoe
The discovery dating back to the Iron Age indicates that children may have worked in the present-day Austrian region’s salt mines.
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Incarcerated Artists and Authors Shed Light on Prison Censorship
The exhibition Return To Sender, co-organized by Mariame Kaba with PEN America, explores the prison industrial complex’s mechanisms of silencing.
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Man Attacks Pan-Asian History Museum in Alleged Hate Crime
Craig Milne reportedly smashed the windows of Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum with a sledgehammer and was heard making racially biased statements.
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Hong Kong Student Sentenced to Prison for Tiananmen Monument Banner
Zeng Yuxuan was arrested in June over a banner of the recently removed “Pillar of Shame” monument commemorating the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
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The World’s UnFair in Queens Echoes Calls to Give Native Land Back
The New Red Order exhibition asks visitors to contemplate their relationship with the land and very simply — to give it back.
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Police Guard German Museum in Response to Right-Wing Threats
Staff reportedly received online threats over the museum’s “safe space” time slot for visitors of color during its This Is Colonial exhibition workshop.
