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A woman who began working at age 23 as a restorer for the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, near Brussels, says her background research into the museum's collections led her to uncover the atrocities committed under Belgium's King Leopold II in the Congo. Her account is being widely shared and reposted, drawing renewed attention to Belgium's colonial legacy and how its museums present that history.

A game modding panel at the MAMG26 conference is under way, featuring two academic papers. The first, presented by Maxime Kremer, explores mods as a tool for exploring historiography, analysing how the systems of Crusader Kings III shape the requirements for modded historical events. It highlights growing scholarly interest in how game modding communities reinterpret and mediate history through grand strategy games.

A traveller passing through Runcton Holme in Norfolk, about five miles beyond Downham Market, noticed something intriguing along the way to King's Lynn and looked into its history. Research revealed the area once had its own railway station, which opened as Holme Gate between 1847 and 1853 and was later known simply as Holme before disappearing from the network.

New research suggests that Egypt's earliest dynastic kings may have been buried alongside human sacrifices, a practice previously more associated with neighboring cultures of ancient Africa. The findings would revise understanding of early Egyptian royal burial customs and the consolidation of kingly power around the dawn of the pharaonic era.

A new market report from Kings Research says fitness trackers are evolving beyond step counts into devices that learn users' behavioural patterns, using data to offer more personalised health insights. The claim points to wearables increasingly relying on pattern recognition and algorithms to interpret activity, sleep and routine data. The report has drawn little visible attention so far, with engagement figures currently unavailable.

A new King's College London review pooling 63 studies covering roughly 265,000 people found cannabis users were about twice as likely to commit violent acts in the general population, and around 1.5 times as likely to experience violence themselves. Researchers caution the findings show association, not proof of causation.

Former KING 5 meteorologist Rich Marriott is attending the International Snow Science Workshop, a gathering of avalanche researchers, forecasters and mountain safety specialists. The workshop brings together experts to share findings on snowpack behavior, avalanche prediction and backcountry risk. Marriott, a longtime Seattle broadcast weather figure, is known for his expertise in mountain weather and avalanche science.