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Peter Frankopan
Peter Frankopan is research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. His latest book, The Silk Roads, has been widely acclaimed as a corrective to standard accounts of world history. By Masoud Golsorkhi.
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13,800-Year-Old Engraving May Be First Depiction of a Man-Made Landscape
Seven crude semicircles scratched into the surface of an ancient stone slab may not make much of an impression on modern-day viewers.
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How Ancient Rome Killed Democracy
It didn’t take all that much to tip a great civilization into the shackles of empire. By Bridey Heing.
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Splendors of the Dead
Twenty-one Greek museums and four North American museums have cooperated to collect over five hundred artifacts from Ancient Greece in an extraordinary exhibition called “The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander the Great.” By Garry Wills.
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Archaeologists unearth new evidence of Roman and medieval Leicester
University of Leicester team reveals insights into Roman and medieval domestic life beneath former city centre bus depot
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Archaeological Finds in El Salvador Tell a Whole Different Tale about Maya Society
Artifacts uncovered by the Cerén dig suggest Maya citizens enjoyed certain freedoms when trading and making societal decisions. By Andrea Small Carmona.
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Evil-Thwarting 'Rattles' Found in Prehistoric Infant's Grave
Tiny figurines that may have been used as rattling toys or charms to ward off evil spirits were discovered in the grave of an infant who died 4,500 years ago.
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Inside the Emperors’ Clothes
From the Atlantic to the Euphrates, from the Rhine and the Danube to the edge of the Sahara, Rome transformed and refashioned the cultures it absorbed, and we live today with the aftermath of its conquests.
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Prosthetic Leg with Hoofed Foot Discovered in Ancient Chinese Tomb
The remains of a man with a deformed knee that was attached to a prosthetic leg, dating back around 2,200 years, have been discovered in a tomb in an ancient cemetery near Turpan, China.
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‘A bronze age Pompeii’: archaeologists hail discovery of Peterborough [UK] site
Silty fen preserved burning houses and domestic objects inside them to reveal unprecedented view of life 3,000 years ago. By Maev Kennedy.
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Can ancient remedies head off super-bug crisis?
UK researchers cite promising signs of 1,000-year-old Anglo Saxon treatment against drug-resistant bacterial infection. By Ryan Rifai.
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Lost Egyptian City Found After 1,200 Years
The ancient Egyptian city of Heracleion was once a legend, something known to modern man only by myth and ancient historians. So when its ruins were discovered by French underwater archaeologist Franck Goddio in 2000, no one was expecting to find it. However, despite all odds, they stumbled upon the decrepit but magnificent underwater city …
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[Göbekli Tepe] World’s Oldest Temple to Be Restored
An ancient site of Göbekli Tepe in Turkey has rewritten the early history of civilization. By Andrew Curry.
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Early Egyptian Queen Revealed in 5,000-Year-Old Hieroglyphs
Sprawling hieroglyphs dating back around 5,000 years have been discovered in Egypt's Sinai Desert. Carved into stone, the symbols reveal secrets of the early pharaohs, including a queen named Neith-Hotep who ruled Egypt. By Owen Jarus.
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Ancient Babylonians Geometrically Traced the Path of Jupiter
For millenia upon millenia, humans knew that certain objects in the sky moved while other stars stood still. These are the objects we now know as planets. But precise calculations on their movements remains a fuzzy area of history. But a new clay tablet from ancient Babylonia shows that they may have used advanced geometrical techniques somewhere between 350 BCE or 50 BCE, pushing back the "discovery" of these principles back as far as 1750 years.
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How a Mathematical Superstition Stultified Algebra for Over a Thousand Years
Like most people, my high-school training in mathematics involved next-to-no history, barely touching on the names of a few mathematicians, like Pythagoras, and their theorems. I graduated only vaguely aware that geometry came from ancient Greece and algebra came from the Babylonians... By Robert Coolman.
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Lasers reveal 'lost' Roman roads
Archaeologists are using Environment Agency laser mapping data to rediscover hundreds of kilometres of ‘lost’ Roman roads.
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Watch the Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with Computer Animation (79 AD)
A good disaster story never fails to fascinate — and, given that it actually happened, the story of Pompeii especially so.
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Ancient Greek manuscripts reveal life lessons from the Roman empire
Newly translated textbooks from the second and sixth centuries aimed at language learners also provide pointers on shopping, bathing, dining and how to deal with drunk relatives
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Birth of the moralizing gods
“The gods of today’s major religions are moralizing gods, who encourage virtue and punish selfish and cruel people after death. But for most of human history, moralizing gods have been the exception. If today’s hunter-gatherers are any guide, for thousands of years our ancestors conceived of deities as utterly indifferent to the human realm, and to whether we behaved well or badly.” By Lizzie Wade.
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