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Some 1,900 years ago, a man named Thrasymedes gave a thin sheet of gold to a god who was neither Greek nor Roman. The...
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What do you make of a young child who says they remember being someone else? A team at the University of Virginia has...
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The church is Santa Eulalia de Esperante, known in Galician as Santalla de Esperante. It stands in a hamlet a few kil...
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At the narrowest point of the Karmsundet, the channel that separates the island of Karmøy from the mainland on Norway...
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In 2006, the Carabinieri, Italy’s national military police, raised the alarm about illegal digging in a forest of oak...
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If matter and antimatter had come out of the Big Bang in equal amounts, there would be no stars today. Every particle...
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They had crossed most of Persia, climbed snowbound mountains and fought tribes that hurled stones at them from the cl...
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Neanderthals left plenty of traces in the western Pyrenees, the mountain range that separates Spain from France. Ston...
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On a patch of bare rock in western Malta, roughly 80 by 100 metres (260 by 330 feet), dozens of parallel grooves cros...
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About 2,200 years ago, someone pressed a finger into a lump of damp clay to stick down the flap of a suit of armour. ...
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In November 1983, the Soviet Union came to believe that NATO might be preparing a nuclear attack. The trigger was a w...
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Around 4,200 years ago, in the dry south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, a society began building cities on hilltops, ...
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Thirty-five thousand spectators. That is the capacity the authors of a new study attribute to the Roman amphitheatre ...
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Anyone who wants to build a house on the waterfront at Meria, at the northern tip of Corsica, has to let archaeologis...
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Around 1200 BC, the eastern Mediterranean fell apart. The great empires of the Bronze Age collapsed, many cities were...
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Ancient geographers listed many cities called Arsinoe, from Cyprus to Cilicia (in what is now southern Turkey), from ...
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In a lab at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan, a slab of diamond smaller than a pencil ...
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On the road into the stadium at Olympia, at the foot of Mount Cronius, ancient Greek athletes passed a stone platform...
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The shoulder blade is such a wide and flat bone that in some areas it becomes almost translucent when held up to the ...
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Tucked among the Greek temples that made Agrigento famous, on the south coast of Sicily, there is a narrow valley of ...