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Archaeologists have just discovered ‘one of the richest and most intriguing archaeological digs’—a 2,200-year-old stone pyramid near the Dead Sea
A stone pyramid structure has just been discovered during an archaeological dig in the Judean desert. Inside were numerous written documents and the remains of remarkably well-preserved ancient ...
A Man Spent 6 Years Searching the Same Farm—and Finally Discovered a 1,900-Year-Old Roman Treasure
A metal detectorist from England spent six years searching a single field before locating a rare Roman coin from 69 A.D. The ...
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Who Was Flavius Josephus? The Problematic Chronicler of the Jewish War
Flavius Josephus was a Jewish aristocrat who was initially a general in the Jewish rebellion of 66-71 CE, but soon ...
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Menander, the Ancient Greek King of India
Long ago in ancient India reigned a Greek king named Menander I Soter, a great conqueror and benefactor of Buddhism ...
Greek Reporter4d
Bactria: The Ancient Greek State in Afghanistan
Bactria, a huge area in todays' Afghanistan, was the eastern edge of the ancient Greek empire, established by Alexander the ...
Archaeology breakthrough as 'mysterious' 2,200-year-old pyramid unearthed in desert 'changes historical record'
The pyramid was believed to have dated back to the First Temple period (1,000 BC to 586 BC), but it was found to contain a ...