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Every human society holds its own creation myths. For millennia, until science arrived with its factual but emotionally neutral explanations about what actually occurred, these myths explained ...

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The signing ceremony between the Zhonghua Book Company and Springer Nature ... and other Buddhist figures with the features of Greek gods wrapped in aristocratic robes. The Gandhara art persisted ...