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Roman Sarcophagus Discovered in Caesarea with a Unique Scene: The Drinking Contest Between Hercules and Dionysus
Archaeologists working in the ancient city of Caesarea, in present-day Israel, have found a Roman-era marble sarcophagus ...
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How Hugo Grotius, the Father of International Law, Escaped from Prison Hidden in a Chest
Many readers have surely visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. There, a simple chest is preserved—made of dark, somewhat ...
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The Origin of Ancient Greek City-States rewritten
A new study published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization presents an alternative explanation for how ...
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Some Dead Sea Scrolls Discovered to Have Been Written by the Same Authors of the Bible
An artificial intelligence program was trained to study the writing styles of the famous Dead Sea Scrolls found in the Qumran ...
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The Earliest Use of Fire by Humans Was Not for Cooking but for Preserving Meat
A study from Tel Aviv University proposes the hypothesis that prehistoric humans’ control of fire was not initially intended ...
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Around 1500 BCE, Europeans strangely abandoned fortified settlements, began building burial mounds, and started eating millet instead of meat
An international team of researchers has investigated the strange, radical transformations that took place in the diet, ...
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Thrushes Were the “Fast Food” of Romans in Imperial Cities, Not an Exclusive Delicacy for Banquets
A study published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology analyzed thrush remains found in a latrine of a fast-food ...
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Roman Camp from the 2nd Century AD Found Beyond the Empire’s Northern Border on the Rhine
Students from the Constructing the Limes project, together with archaeologists from Saxion University, discovered a Roman ...
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The Walls of Constantinople, the Best Urban Defensive Complex of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Historians have chosen the year of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, 1453, as a reference point to mark the end of ...
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A Mysterious Carpetani Relief Rewrites the History of the Iberian Peninsula in the Iron Age
A team of archaeologists reexamined the findings from the El Cerrón site in Illescas (Toledo, Spain) and found that the local ...
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Two Seal Impressions Discovered on a Greek Island Change Everything We Know About the Origins of Script in the Aegean
On the small island of Therasia, one of the volcanic islands of the Santorini group in the Greek Cyclades archipelago, a ...
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The chances of a collision between Andromeda and the Milky Way within 5 billion years have dropped to 2%, but we won’t be around to see it
As early as 1912, astronomers realized that the Andromeda galaxy, then considered just a nebula, was heading toward us—toward ...