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Workers were preparing to build a block of flats in Ligornetto, a small town in the canton of Ticino, right on the bo...
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While Brutus and his allies were stabbing Julius Caesar to death, a good chunk of the Roman working class was having ...
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Forty years ago, archaeologist Lucien Basch and researcher Michal Artzy published a set of 19 ship graffiti carved in...
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In the district of Monteleone Sabino, a town of under 1,300 people in Italy’s Rieti province, a team of cavers has ma...
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Some 40 miles (65 km) from Thessaloniki, a teenager who would go on to reshape the ancient world once sat listening t...
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Tharangambadi is a fishing village on India’s Coromandel Coast, in the state of Tamil Nadu. Its name means “place of ...
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Under Ramesses II, who ruled Egypt between 1279 and 1213 BC and is remembered as one of its most powerful pharaohs, t...
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Massive 6,000-Year-Old Kiln in Romania Ran Hot Enough to Melt Bronze Centuries Before Anyone Cast It
A team of archaeologists digging at the site of Ursoaia, in Romania’s Iași County, has uncovered a nearly 6,000-year-...
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All roads lead to Rome. It’s one of the oldest sayings in the Western world, and according to a new study in Nature C...
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There’s a temperature nothing in the universe has ever touched. It’s called absolute zero, equal to -273.15°C (-459.6...
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Before Rome existed, before Phoenician ships ever reached the western Mediterranean, and around the same time the fir...
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The site is provisionally dated to a six-century stretch, from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD, offering a w...
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Anyone planning to build in Pontecagnano Faiano, near Salerno, has learned to expect a tomb underneath. That happened...
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Winchester Cathedral covers roughly 53,800 square feet (about 5,000 square meters) of floor space, making it one of t...
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In the German state of Brandenburg, barely a hundred meters (about 330 feet) from the border with Saxony-Anhalt, the ...
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One grape variety still grown in Spanish vineyards, hebén, has never gone out of cultivation for at least the last 1,...
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A team led by the National Museum of Denmark has worked out, for the first time, what people actually cooked in the p...
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In February 2012, after twenty years of nearly uninterrupted work, a Russian drill broke through the last stretch of ...
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The site is called Külhöyük, in the Oyaca neighborhood of Ankara’s Gölbaşı district, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) s...
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The body has been lying face-down for close to two thousand years. When archaeologists reached tomb 162, on the outsk...