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Scans Show Anne Boleyn’s Hever ‘Rose’ Portrait Was Reworked in 1583 to Display Five Fingers

Curators say the added hands were intended to rebut rumors of a “sixth finger.”

Mapped Submerged Port Near Taposiris Magna Advances Search for Cleopatra’s Tomb