Each subtle cultural or personal twist to a fermented dish is felt by your body’s microbial community.
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From kimchi to kombucha and sauerkraut to sourdough, many traditional food staples across cultures make use of fermentation. And these variations are reflected in your microbiome.
Several campaigns have been waged against statues linked to Africa’s colonial past.
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The fate of several colonial statues in Africa continues to be a subject of controversy.
Traditional Morris dancers performing in Stratford Upon Avon.
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This could see different festivals, folklore or traditional tales, Morris dancing and certain skills and crafts protected.
Palestinians inspect the rubble of the Yassin Mosque in Gaza, destroyed after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike on October 9 2023.
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The bombardment of Gaza is reported to have damaged more than 100 historic sites and destroyed 69,700 homes.
One of the gold items being loaned back to Ghana.
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The elephant in the room is the existing legal framework, forged in period of decolonisation and diminishing western influence, that forbids the repatriation of antiquities.
Neptune Baths in Romania.
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Dark tourism allows people to understand tragic events, experience a catharsis of emotions related to the deaths at a site and it can help people heal from collective trauma.
Massospondylus skeleton.
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Some time between 1100 and 1700 AD, a Massospondylus bone was discovered and carried to a rock shelter in Lesotho.
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Primary identities are foundational and serve as the core part of an individual’s identity.
Akan folklore places emphasis on symbols and their meanings.
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Incorporating Akan folklore in the curriculum will promote quality and lifelong education in Ghana.
A digital composite of a meteor shower speeding towards Earth.
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Meteorites are usually discovered by someone who notices an unusual rock while out walking.
Activists in Newark, N.J., offer tours that teach visitors about the city’s legacy of industrial pollution and environmental racism.
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Societies celebrate heroes and commemorate tragedies. But why is there so little public acknowledgment of environmental disasters?
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YIMBYs and NIMBYs agree on one thing – they both want to live in desirable heritage neighbourhoods. And despite heritage being blamed for lack of new housing in these areas, it’s not the real issue.
This is a digitally generated image of what a city might look like after a war.
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Urban spaces are a repository of people’s beliefs, memories and collective conscience.
Increasingly, the mood in the UK is leaning towards repatriating the Parthenon Marbles.
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An international legal expert explains why the Greeks are right to be wary of the British Museum’s offer to loan them the Parthenon marbles.
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The huge gathering of policymakers focused on culture’s crucial role in sustainable development.
Great Zimbabwe.
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Archaeological discoveries show the different options that have solved human problems over time.
The Wellcome Collection gallery in central London.
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Closing racist exhibitions is a good step, but it doesn’t go far enough to decolonise our museums – an expert explains.
The Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza.
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As the Grand Egyptian Museum begins welcoming visitors ahead of its opening in 2023, one object remains conspicuously absent.
DRC President.
Felix Tshisekedi, left, receives a ceremonial mask from Belgium’s King Philippe in June 2022.
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Belgium wants to frame its relationship with Congo, Rwanda and Burundi as one looking into the future – but the past weighs heavily.
The Market Wall.
Nottingham was once two towns divided by a wall in Market Square.