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Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

The young conqueror fell suddenly and fatally ill at an all-night feast. Now, a Stanford historian has found a potential ...

Vergina, Greece is a small, unassuming town in modern times, but it played a crucial role in the ancient world as Aigai. Then ...

No other Indian fruit can match the mango for its historical significance, its sociocultural importance and its almost ...

St John’s Jerusalem is approached by a long driveway winding through a former deer park, currently used to keep horses. Its ...

Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the University of Oxford, and the University of Innsbruck have ...

Starting off with Ancient Egypt, we’ve got some interesting options. Amazingly, we have two separate papyri that talk about ...

French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.

Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an ...

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He sent photographs of the inscriptions to K. Muniratnam Reddy, director and epigraphist at the Archaeological Survey of ...