This story appears in the June 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Most of us would be ... in those three and other regions of China. Rare earths, as the elements are called, were ...

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National Geographic began documenting the painstaking excavation and reconstruction in collaboration with the Natural History ...

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In Seoraksan National Park, in the north east of South Korea, the mountainous landscape is dotted with Buddhist shrines.

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