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Feb 7, 2013 03:43 PM ET // Rossella Lorenzi
An abundance of gold wreaths appear to lay hidden in a subway network in Greece. ->
Jan 20, 2012 02:46 PM ET // Erik Trinidad
Ever fantasize about being in a large-scale epic battle in ancient Greece -- like in films Troy or 300 -- and with authentic locations rather than a green screen studio? Well, now you can try and reenact the Battle of Attica of 480 B.C., when the Persians pillaged and seized the Greek region contai...
May 1, 2010 10:00 AM ET // Benjamin Radford
Last week an organization called Noah's Ark Ministries called a press conference in Hong Kong to announce that they had made one of the most significant archaeological discoveries in history. Yeung Wing-Cheung claims he and his research team located the remains of Noah's Ark on Turkey's Mount Arara...
Jul 27, 2011 06:11 PM ET // Rossella Lorenzi
Hundreds of thousands of fragments of ancient papyri have been put online in a bid to crowd source translations.
Jul 23, 2012 02:52 PM ET // Rossella Lorenzi
The ode, composed by an Oxford University academic, will be read by London's mayor and contains athletes' names embedded in the text.
Dec 10, 2012 10:20 AM ET // Rossella Lorenzi
The first mention of male and female circumcision appears in writings by a Greek geographer who visited Egypt around 25 B.C.
Dec 5, 2012 02:42 PM ET // The DNews Editors
A scientific explanation for what caused this woman of ancient Greece to utter her confused prophecies.
Jul 6, 2010 05:35 PM ET // Rossella Lorenzi
A sandstone sculpture of a kneeling man sharpening a knife could be a long forgotten work by Michelangelo, according to an Italian scholar who has rediscovered the statue in a private collection. Measuring 111 centimeters (3.65 feet), the statue is now on display for the first time after more than ...
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