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A 2,000-year-old marble throne dedicated to Potamon, a revered rhetorician of Mytilene, has been highlighted by a 1908 ...
Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The painting and artistry is not what sticks out to archeologists at a newly discovered ancient altar in Guatemala. The likely ...
Chitons are significant because their ancient body plan has remained largely unchanged for millions of years, yet the paper reveals rapid and large-scale genomic changes. This convincing study is a ...
Colossal explained how the pups were "brought back from extinction" using genetic edits which came from a complete dire wolf genome which was "meticulously reconstructed" from ancient DNA found in ...
Over 1,700 years ago, the ancient Greek Stoic philosopher, Epictetus, proposed an entirely different theory. He argued that it’s not life events that upset us, but our thoughts about them.
About this data The population of Chiton in 2011 was 1,973 people. By 2016 the population was 2,247 showing a population growth of 13.9% in the area during that time. The predominant age group in ...
It's known as an incredibly holy place, where ancient Byzantine monasteries were built atop the gigantic rock peaks. Six monasteries are still active with a small number of monks and nuns who ...
Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...
CAIRO — Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city of Abydos dating to about 3,600 years ago during a chaotic ...
Explore art works, paint-smeared palettes, scribbled letters and more... Artists and architects have run the RA for 250 years. Our Collection is a record of them.
"A person came to the back of the cave and went through their hunting gear piece by piece: 'This is good. This is not good. I need to remake this leather pouch a little bit.' And then went on ...
Now, a farmer is reviving this ancient "superfood". It's a hot and muggy summer day in Sicily's Madonie mountains, a rugged range of ridges about 65km east of Palermo. In a field of ash trees ...