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“In the 14th century A.D., a Moroccan explorer named Ibn Battuta documented that a buttery variation of khichuri was eaten daily in South Asia,” wrote Rachael Grow for Mashed.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026

To say that our picture of the Mayan civilization—an interlocking network of kingdoms occupying the Yucatán Peninsula and swaths of present-day Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador from roughly 1000 B.C. to A.D.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Through some ingenious sleuthing, Mr. Tuck discovers that on Aug. 24, A.D.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

He played Georgio, the waiter in the crumbling hotel, in Carry On Abroad in 1972, and also killed daleks and cybermen in the 1966 Dr Who movie Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.

From BBC • Aug. 10, 2025

There is a Peruvian deity, painted on a clay pot dating from around A.D.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas