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2,000-year-old skulls reveal that people in ancient Vietnam permanently blackened their teeth – a stylish practice that persists today

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2,000-year-old skulls reveal that people in ancient Vietnam permanently blackened their teeth – a stylish practice that persists today

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndicate partners may earn a commission. A 2,000-year-old skull shows a layer of black pigment on the teeth of an individual from Dong Xa, Vietnam. | Credit: © 2026 Zhang et al., Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences Shiny black teeth have been considered a high … Read more

Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported on the Vietnam and Gulf wars, has died

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Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported on the Vietnam and Gulf wars, has died

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died. He was 91 years old. Arnett, who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his … Read more

Correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and the Gulf War, has died

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Correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and the Gulf War, has died

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died at the age of 91. Arnett, who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his coverage of the Vietnam War … Read more