Cairo — Egyptian farmer Khaled al-Shahat was working on his land when he came across something he hadn’t seen before. The unusual pink rock led archaeologists to unearth pieces of statues for King Ramses II, who ruled Egypt from 1279 B.C. to 1213 B.C. “I was working on my land on Friday when I came across an […]
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Rubio calls for “unapologetic pursuit of national power,” invoking ancient Greece in Acropolis speech
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Athens — As the United States wages a costly war with Iran and Europe struggles with the grinding conflict in Ukraine, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood before the Acropolis on Wednesday and reached back more than two millennia to argue that the answer to the West’s current problems can be found, at least in […]
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An ancient wall discovered beneath a Paris hotel could confirm the city’s origins: “Major breakthrough”
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An ancient wall discovered beneath Paris was described as a “major breakthrough” on Wednesday by France’s culture ministry, with the archaeological find possibly confirming the location of the city’s original settlement. A roughly 65-foot wall dating from the Gallo-Roman period was discovered in Paris this summer beneath a hotel on the Ile de la Cite, […]
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Man’s metal detector wouldn’t stop beeping, leading to record-breaking trove of ancient Roman coins
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An amateur archaeologist who discovered several Roman silver coins in a field in western Germany realized he had stumbled upon something bigger when his metal detector kept beeping. Oliver Riedl called the authorities for help, and a group of experts who began digging immediately discovered a total of 934 Roman silver denarii. It is the […]
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Thieves on Thursday raided the Treasure of Villena — one of the greatest Bronze Age gold collections — in the latest high-profile heist at a European museum, officials said. The raid on the 50-plus mainly gold objects in the Spanish town of Villena lasted just minutes. “The alarm at the Villena Museum went off around […]
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Italian divers have discovered the 2,100-year-old wreck of a Roman ship off Sicily, piled high with hundreds of well-preserved ancient clay jars, known as amphorae, which were likely used to transport wine. The wreck, dubbed by Italy’s Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli as “one of the most important underwater archaeological discoveries of recent years”, was found […]
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Astronomer’s name deciphered from ancient Mayan ruins for first time: “White-chested Fox”
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Archaeologists have transcribed mural symbols from Mayan ruins to learn the name of an astronomer and mathematician from the ancient civilization for the first time, Guatemala’s Ministry of Culture said Monday. The name “White-chested Fox” was found in drawings dating from 400 BC to 900 AD at the San Bartolo-Xultun archaeological site on the Mexican […]