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Rajesh Rao presenting his TED talk on a Rosetta Stone for a lost language — deciphering the ancient Indus script

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A Rosetta Stone for a Lost Language

A screen grab from the Refugee Project interactive map of refugee migration from 1975 to 2015

Website

The Refugee Project

The cover of The War that Ended Peace by Margaret MacMillan

Book

The War that Ended Peace

A family tree showing how closely related George V, Wilhelm II and Nicholas II were.

Blog Post

World War One — a family affair.

A still from the film Waltz with Bashir

Film

Waltz with Bashir

The cover of the DVD of Dinosaur 13, a documentary on the discovery of the largest T. Rex fossil ever found

Film

Dinosaur 13

The cover of The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan

Book

The Silk Roads

A screenshot from Steve Johnson's TED talk on how play can lead to great innovation and invention.

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The Playful Wonderland Behind Great Inventions

Murray Gell-Mann presenting his TED talk on the ancestor of language

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The Ancestor of Language

The cover of Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond

Book

Guns, Germs and Steel

The front gate to Fort Sperone... shut, unfortunately

Travel Blog

Exploring Genoa — Parco delle Mura (Park of the City Walls) (#1)

The cover of A Concise History of the World by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

Book

A Concise History of the World

The cover of The Way of Zen by Alan Watts, an introduction to Zen Buddhism

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The Way of Zen

A map showing the last time that each European country was occupied

Infographic

The last time each European country was occupied

The cover of the book Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

Book

Homo Deus

An image of space for The Big History Project, a free online course on the history of the Universe

Website

The Big History Project

The cover of Paris 1919 by Margaret MacMillan

Book

Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

The cover of the book Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Book

Sapiens

The ruins of an Ancient Greek building, perhaps a gymnasium

Article

The Gymnasium

Yuval Noah Harari presenting his TED talk explaining the rise of humans

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What explains the rise of humans?

A screen capture from Adam Curtis' documentary HyperNormalisation

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HyperNormalisation

The cover of the book Southeast Asia: An introductory history by Milton Osborne

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Southeast Asia: An Introductory History