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New Dating Confirms That Realistic Figures and Abstract Symbols Coexisted in Altamira from Very Early Stages
A recent study on the cave paintings of the Altamira Cave in Santillana del Mar, Cantabria (Spain) has concluded that some of ...
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Gaius Pontius, the Samnite Leader Who Defeated the Romans at the Caudine Forks and Was an Ancestor of Pontius Pilate
Throughout its long history, Rome achieved numerous military victories that allowed it to grow, expand, and dominate nearly ...
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160 Million Years Ago, Giant Flying Reptiles Learned to Walk and Conquered the Earth
A team of paleontologists from the University of Leicester has managed to decipher one of the many enigmas of the dinosaur ...
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The Strange Iron Keys from the Roman Era Found in the Judean Desert
Three elbow keys from the Cave of the Letters assemblage discovered by the Yadin expedition Collection of the Israel Antiquities Authority Credit: John Williams / Israel Museum Jerusalem In the 1960s, ...
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Identity of the Occupants of the Tomb of Persephone in Vergina Revealed: They Are Not Philip II and His Wife
An international team of scientists has unveiled new findings about the enigmatic Tomb I, known as the Tomb of Persephone, located in the Great Tumulus of Vergina, Greece. This monument, considered ...
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The Difference Between Terror and Horror in Film and Literature
The Headless Horseman Chasing Ichabod Crane, a play by John Quidor on Washington Irving's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons In his work The Gothic, ...
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The Megalithic Sepulcher of Küsterberg, a Large 5500-year-old Monument in Germany, Restored
In the German state of Saxony-Anhalt, in the lush forest of Haldensleben, lies the largest concentration of megalithic tombs in Central Europe. Among them, the Küsterberg Megalithic Sepulcher, an ...
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The Exceptionally Well-Preserved Remains of a 5,000-Year-Old Woman from Caral’s Elite Found in Peru
The exceptionally preserved remains of a 5000-year-old woman from the Caral civilization. Credit: Ministry of Culture of Peru A team of archaeologists discovered the burial of a high-ranking woman at ...
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Cleopatra the Alchemist, One of the Four Women Whom Hermetic Tradition Claims Found the Philosopher’s Stone
Emblems and badges of the main alchemists of antiquity, collected in the Basillica Philosophica of Johann Daniel Milyus. Credit: Arsgravis, arte y simbolismo / Universidad de Barcelona Engraving of ...
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The Papyrus Containing the Only Word Personally Written by Cleopatra Granted Tax Favors to an Influential Roman
The papyrus containing the only word written by Cleopatra herself that has survived to the present day. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons In the display cases of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin ...
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Oldest Bone Spear Tip in Europe was Made by Neanderthals
Four photographs of the tapered part of the specimen. White rectangles marked with numbers indicate: 1 – areas of red-brown coloration of the type caused by heat at the tip; 2 – location of the ...
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The Chapel of Corpus Christi in the Toledo Cathedral is also known as the Mozarabic Chapel because Cardinal Cisneros decreed in 1504 that it be used to celebrate worship according to the eponymous ...