Cleopatra was not just a famed Greek queen of Ancient Egypt, but she also even created her own secret drinking club.

Read latest scientific findings on ancient DNA, including research on DNA preserved from early life forms and early humans.

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Although an ancient rite, it had no single administrator until Pope John Paul II appointed a Major Archbishop in 1992. All the rites of the Catholic Church are of equal dignity and equally valid.

The New Testament was written in Greek, with the exception of St. Matthew's Gospel which - according to the unanimous testimony of Christian antiquity - was written in Hebrew or Aramaic.