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The History of Chariot Racing in Ancient Rome
Chariot racing was very big business in ancient Rome. There was a whole industry built around the factions, the four professional stables known by …
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Archaeologists have discovered a statue of ancient Roman emperor dressed as Hercules
Decius ruled for only two years before he was killed in a battle against the Goths. A newly found statue in Rome appears to depict a slain Roman em…
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What did the pyramids look like when they were first built?
A digital reconstruction of a Giza pyramid The Egyptian pyramids erupting from the sands at Giza are a testament to human ingenuity and engineering. …
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World’s First Cities Collapsed due to Overpopulation and Climate Change 4,000 years ago
According to a new study, some of the world's first cities were completely destroyed 4,000 years ago after being exposed to a powerful combinatio…
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Mysterious City in Southern Africa Had a Genius System to Survive Drought
Great Zimbabwe. Great Zimbabwe was the first major city in southern Africa, home to an estimated 18,000 people at its peak. Yet no one really knows w…
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16 meters long 'Book of the Dead' papyrus from ancient Egypt discovered at Saqqara
A vintage illustration from the Papyrus of Ani, which dates to the 19th dynasty of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt, circa 1250 B.C. There aren't…
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Authentic 3,000-Year-Old Bronze Age Sword may have been used in Battle
A "replica" sword that has been part of the collection at the Field Museum in Chicago for nearly a century is actually a 3,000-year-old art…
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Ancient Gold Coins Reveal the Unknown Roman Emperor Sponsian
In 1713, a collection of eight gold coins of five different design types, one of which featured the unknown Roman emperor Sponsian, was found in Tran…
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World’s Oldest Art Was Created by Neanderthals, Archaeologists Says
Neanderthal art was perhaps more abstract than the stereotypical figure and animal cave paintings Homo sapiens made after Neanderthals disappeared ab…
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‘Golden boy’ mummy was protected by 49 precious amulets, CT scans reveal
The mummy was garlanded with ferns and wore a gilded face mask. Incredibly detailed computed tomography (CT scans) of the so-called "Golden Bo…
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Building the Egyptian Pyramids: Economy and Construction Techniques
The pyramids of Giza astonished researchers for many centuries with their large size, symmetry, and even their mysterious spaces and frightening room…
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First Known Family of Neanderthals Found in a Siberian cave
Analyzing fossils from a cave in Siberia, scientists have found the first known Neanderthal family: a father, his teenage daughter and others who wer…
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How the Mountain’s giant Confederate memorial in Georgia really got there
The Confederate memorial on Stone Mountain in Georgia seems elemental. The vast bas-relief sculpture of Jefferson Davis, Robert. E. Lee and Stonewall…
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Fathers are consistently older than mothers throughout 250,000 years of human evolutionary history
Scientists have discovered a new way to identify the average ages when men and women reproduced throughout human evolutionary history. By studying …
