Can smarts stop witch hunts? A secret tunnel discovery
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| | The same book of the Bible that commands “Thou shalt not kill” has a different instruction for witches: “You shall not permit a witch to live,” Exodus 22:18 says.
Ancient admonitions from many authorities and religions led to the wrongful condemnation, torture, and death for thousands of people—most of them women. The witchcraft accusations have come in irrational, superstitious spasms through history—though authoritarian leaders often stirred up mobs to secure their rule.
Witchcraft was used as a catchall charge to slay a superior military opponent, such as Joan of Arc (pictured above in her last moments)—or to let England’s King Henry VIII kill his wife (Anne Boleyn) so he could marry another. In recent generations, higher education has diminished emotion-led witch hunts and killings, Daniel S. Levy writes for Nat Geo. Greater learning has not, he adds, ended the persecution entirely.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY AMRIT ALE, FULL CIRCLE EVEREST | | A climb for history: An ascent of Everest late last week has taken a modest step in addressing a historic imbalance in those reaching the world’s highest peak. The expedition—of seven Black climbers and eight Sherpas—had publicized the dearth of Black climbers since the first known ascent in 1953. There were only 10—now there are 17, Nat Geo reports. (Pictured above, a group of climbers before the final ascent.)
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY FRITZ HOFFMAN, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION | | If you can’t stand the heat … you might want to get out of this kitchen in Hefei, China. This action photo from a culinary school, of chefs-in-training preparing vegetables in flaming woks, first appeared in our China-focused May 2008 issue. It was recently featured on our Photo of the Day archival collection.
Related: Rediscovering China’s Tea Horse Road
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 | | It's “open, broken, burned and yet still intact and so intact, at least as an archaeological site, that it is the best-preserved example of the many thousands of slave ships that brought people from Africa to the Americas,” | | | | James Delgado | Maritime archaeologist, historian, Nat Geo Explorer
Read: DNA recovery attempt begins on last American slave ship | | |
 | | ALBUM/ROBERT HARDING/ALEX ROBINSON | | Hidden for centuries: A riverside cliff seemed an unlikely site for a series of Buddhist temples built into caves—and an astonishing collection of religious art. Nat Geo’s History magazine investigates India’s Ajanta caves and their immense murals, rock-cut sculptures, shrines, monasteries, prayer halls, and inscriptions created over centuries. The conclusion? They “exemplify masterpieces of early Buddhist art and the creative achievements of classical India.”
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