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Try an asset that the ultra-wealthy have used to boost their gains for centuries: blue-chip art, which has outpaced the S&P by a whopping 131% over the last 26 years.

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In the ever-expanding universe of Samsung smartphones, the new S23 Ultra and the rest of the S23 might seem like minor stars.

The phone’s calling card, as leaks accurately predicted, is a 200-megapixel rear camera. Its looks are mostly unchanged from last year’s model, and it’s still filling in for the Note line with its S Pen stylus (now more widely supported in the Google app suite). But the bigger story of Samsung’s 2023 flagships is how the company is trickling down premium features across not just the Ultra, but also the Galaxy S23+ and S23 in the hopes of elevating the entire line. The question is if those changes will be enough to be worth an upgrade.

M. Night Shyamalan movies live or die by their twists.

At least, that’s the accepted thinking, based on the filmmaker’s famous (or infamous) inclination to include a jaw-dropping twist in most of his movies. The twist can shock, or baffle, or turn the movie’s entire narrative on its head — but if it’s unsatisfying, the entire film is written off. It’s a reputation that’s overshadowed Shyamalan’s whole career, and one that he’ll probably never fully escape. But refreshingly, with Knock at the Cabin, it seems that Shyamalan has outgrown the plot twist.

The ancient Egyptians were prolific record keepers. For thousands of years, they jotted down everything from legal documents to literature on papyrus rolls and tablets of wood and stone.

But there’s one practice central to ancient Egyptian life — and death — that hasn’t been described in detail.

“There are so many texts, but there's no handbook of Egyptian embalming,” Philipp Stockhammer, an archaeologist at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, tells Inverse.

The nuts and bolts of how ancient Egyptians turned would-be decaying bodies into immortal mummies remains largely a mystery. But a new study in the journal Nature investigates artifacts from an embalming workshop and sheds some light on the intricate process.