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Starting in the late eighteenth century, eleven main theories were proposed to explain the shape of ...

Histories of ancient Rome have long emphasized the ways in which the empire assimilated the societie...

For centuries, ancient Sparta has been glorified in song, fiction, and popular art. Yet the true nat...

Speculation about Egyptian hieroglyphs began in the Renaissance; though sometimes fantastic, much of...

"Before the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, the greatest find ever made in the Valley ...

"On 6 January 1907 a mysterious tomb was uncovered in the Valley of the Kings by English archaeologi...

"The tomb of Tutankhamun (Tut.ankh.Amen), uncovered by the fifth Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter...

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During the last centuries of the Roman Empire, the prevailing ideal of feminine virtue was radically...