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A few things on this planet are old enough to make history books look recent, and that includes some living trees that have ...

An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...

When Vikings sailed the North Sea in the 10th century, they recorded their exploits in runes, but that ancient alphabet is ...

The Marvel of Ancient Greece City States #documentary ...

The likes of George Osborne, Mary Beard and Claudia Winkleman have become part of the most important cultural clique in the ...

According to the Academy of Athens, scientists decoded the DNA of the famous Greek feta cheese. Recently, scientists from the ...

The 'rediscovery' of the ancient city of Imet, in Egypt's eastern Nile Delta, has been hailed a landmark historical find.

This colored version of a 19th-century engraving depicts ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus using a sighting tool to measure the positions of the stars.

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An announcement on June 9 from the Greek Ministry of Culture cites the discovery of a rare underground spring cistern dating to the 14th–13th centuries BCE, during the Mycenaean palatial period.