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The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

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If the city-state that shelters the successors of Saint Peter had the earthly norms of the rest, it would be technically ...

Jewelry in a Roman treasure hoard found in Thetford Forest, East Anglia, indicates that Thetford was Pagan until the fifth ...

Latnija cave discoveries show Mesolithic humans crossed 100 km of sea to reach Malta 1,000 years earlier than previously ...

In theory Francis shared those concerns, promising a more collegial and horizontally oriented church, more synodal, in the ...

A trove of buried treasure that metal detectorists recently discovered in Transylvania once belonged to an ancient people ...

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Taormina is the ultimate postcard Italian town. Clinging to a rugged hill overlooking the Ionian Sea, it attracted pioneering ...