In 1936, Emma and Max Hahn stumbled upon a strange stone nodule along a creek in London, Texas. Embedded in it was a wooden handle — unusual enough that they took it home as a curiosity. It wasn’t ...

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When I was in college at Temple University, I had the unique opportunity to do a summer study-abroad program in Ireland. It ...

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The Ash Pendant was discovered in a Viking Age burial mound in Sweden and may have been used by a female shaman.

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