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Archaeologists did some digging in and around the Kazakhstan steppe and discovered an ancient settlement. Further study ...

For generations, the ancient Egyptian city of Akhetaten—built by the controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten—was shrouded in the ...

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A tiny silver goblet discovered decades ago in the Judean Hills might hold the oldest known depiction of cosmic creation – and the scenes etched into its surface tell a surprisingly peaceful story.

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A simple turn of the wrist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in February 2023 has unveiled a centuries-old mystery about ancient Roman craftsmen. Washington State University art history professor ...

I first became fascinated by death when I was 8 and my mummy took me to the British Museum to look at the mummies. When, at a slightly older age, I began to study death and the ancient world what ...

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It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2700 years ago. But after his death, it was ...

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In the hushed light of a museum gallery, Hallie Meredith discovered something intriguing about ancient Roman glasswork hiding ...