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2,500-year-old lost city of Thonis-Heracleion discovered in Egypt
Thonis-Heracleion once thrived at the mouth of the Nile, a vibrant city pulsing with trade and ceremony long before ...
The fantastic story of the Turkish mountain of eternal flames
In the province of Antalya, a mountain has been burning with prominent flames for 2500 years, and has become a great tourist attraction.
Hagia Sophia: Secrets of the 1,600-year-old megastructure that has survived the collapse of empires
One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...
What Greek tragedy could teach us about the decline of our democracy
My late classics professor taught me that Ancient Greek tragedy dramatized different points of view, insisted on empathy, and ...
The world’s first museum was curated by a princess. A tour reveals the origins of the zodiac, calculus and writing
A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...
Philly’s own ‘Temple of Doom’ has fossils in the floors, stars in the ceiling, and an Egyptian room
As I entered the Masonic Temple in Center City and walked between two sphinx statues guarding the entryway staircase, and ...
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UNESCO and ‘Trilingual inscription’
UNESCO has accepted for its Memory of the World Register 2025, the “Trilingual inscription” found in Sri Lanka. The tablet containing the inscription was brought to Sri Lanka from China by Chinese ...
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New York Times - Top Stories
Missteps, Equipment Problems and a Common but Risky Practice Led to a Fatal Crash New details revealed by The Times show the complex failures on Jan. 29 before an Army helicopter crashed into a je ...