Plus: Intriguing new details about the day the dinosaurs died; the goddess who fell to Earth
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 | | ARTOKOLORO/ALAMY | | | The mystery of the Luristan Bronzes still puzzles archaeologists | | When exquisite bronze figures began flooding the antiquities market in the late 1920s, nobody knew much about them, other than where they came from: the Zagros Mountains of Iran. Artworks of people and animals, embossed bronze cups, and delicate pins thrilled dealers, who sold them to museums and private collections. Scholars today are still debating who crafted them. | | | |
 | | COURTESY OF ZAHI HAWASS | | | What secrets might the 'lost golden city of Luxor' reveal? | | The recently discovered 3,400-year-old royal city was built by Amenhotep III, abandoned by his heretic son, Akhenaten, and contains stunningly preserved remains. While it may not give up clues to the mystery of the rebel pharaoh—whose legacy was nearly wiped from history by his own son, Tutankhamun—it may paint an even more vivid picture of the life he left behind. | | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY MATTHIEU PALEY | | | The goddess who fell to Earth, and the pilgrims who brave the desert to honor her | | Each spring a sea of color floods western Pakistan—an area infused with centuries of Hindu, Zoroastrian, and Sufi heritage—as thousands of pilgrims come to honor the goddess Sati and cleanse their sins. See these stunning images of the grueling trek across more than 160 miles of desert—and learn the fascinating origin story. | | | |
 | | ILLUSTRATION BY DETLEV VAN RAVENSWAAY, SCIENCE SOURCE | | | New clues reveal the devastation the day the dinosaurs died | | Some 66 million years ago, a six-mile wide asteroid slammed into the ocean off the coast of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. In an instant, the trajectory of life on Earth was forever changed. Now, researchers studying tiny white specks in Texas known as lapilli are revealing intriguing new details about what happened in the minutes after that fateful impact. | | | |
 | Tiny flecks of white dot a section of crumbly rocks along Texas's Brazos River. To a casual observer, the grains may seem like unremarkable bits of sand, but within their oddball shapes lie clues to the most catastrophic day in our planet's history.
Maya Wei-Haas, writer | | From: New clues reveal the devastation the day the dinosaurs died | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY ANGEL FITOR | | | There is nothing normal about this fish | | Many are doting parents to their young fish—though sometimes they eat their own eggs. Some are the size of a preschooler; others, no longer than a pinkie finger. There are more than 250 species of cichlids in Africa's oldest lake—and they all evolved from a single ancestor more than 9.7 million years ago. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES WHITLOW DELANO | | | In search of the real Queen of Sheba | | The Queen of Sheba is the Greta Garbo of antiquity. A glamorous, mysterious figure immortalized in the Bible and the Quran, and celebrated by artists, she remains tantalizingly elusive to the inquiries of historians. Across swaths of modern-day North Africa her legend lives on, despite—or perhaps because of—the fact that no one knows for sure if she existed. | | | |
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