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While snapping photos at a park along the Israel-Syria border, a teenager spotted something “strange” on the ground. His family had their doubts, but he picked it up anyway — and found a 1,700-year-old artifact.Itamar Grossman’s family and th...
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Researchers used ultraviolet photography to see a chapter of the Bible that was hidden underneath other text for more than 1,500 years.
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Researchers revealed their findings on the "ancient history of kissing" in Mesopotamian societies, in an article published in Science.
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The southern Italian city of Baiae was once a magnificent metropolis on pair with Pompeii. It eventually stopped being a hedonistic vacation town for various Caesars and Julii, and endured a few centuries of gradual below before it finally sunk below...
Hirakawa Yasuhiro is a master blacksmith for Sasuke in Sakai, Japan, who makes high-quality scissors using methods that go back to the fifth century.
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Archaeologists have made some incredible discoveries about burial rites this year and last. Here we round up 12 of them.
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Day 5 ended with us exhausted, crashing onto our beds and having a sound night’s sleep after a paradoxical search for a hotel with available rooms in what is one of the largest cities in the world with plenty of hotels. But that’s how thi...