Also, animals that get healthier with age; the history of menstruation; caterpillars that can predict weather?
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| PHOTOGRAPH BY SIMON NORFOLK | | Believers call him the Son of God. Skeptics dismiss him as legend. In recent years, researchers digging in the Holy Land have been sifting fact from fiction.
Both believers and skeptics claim archaeology as their ally. What have we learned of the historical Jesus (above, a scene inside Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre)? Archaeologist and Nat Geo journalist Kristin Romey finds out.
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| PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL MELFORD | | World’s biggest waterfall? It is three miles wide and 400 feet high—ten times the size of Niagara Falls—and had plunge pools at its base suggesting the erosive power of an immense flow of water. Now nearly all the water is gone from this region (an island of wheat, above). In what U.S. state is it located?
A. Alaska B. Colorado C. Arizona D. Washington | | | |
| PHOTOGRAPH BY LEEMAGE, CORBIS/GETTY IMAGES | | | |
| PHOTOGRAPH BY RUNK/SCHOENBERGER/ GRANT HEILMAN PHOTOGRAPHY / ALAMY | | How cold will winter be? Can the black hairs of this woolly bear caterpillar really tell us how mild or severe winter will be? Although that folklore has been passed down for centuries, here’s what the experts say. | | | |
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