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At Egyptian Oxyrhynchus, the Hispano-Egyptian expedition of the University of Barcelona has concluded another season of excavation and returned with something genuinely strange

At Egyptian Oxyrhynchus, the Hispano-Egyptian expedition of the University of Barcelona has concluded another season of excavation and returned with something genuinely strange. Among the Roman-period mummies was one inside which lay a papyrus bearing a fragment of the second book of the Iliad, the famous "Catalogue

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In AD 217 the Praetorians murdered the Emperor Caracalla at Edessa

In AD 217 the Praetorians murdered the Emperor Caracalla at Edessa. The Praetorian Guard were the emperors' personal bodyguard, elite troops stationed in Rome itself. Over two centuries they had dispatched more than one ruler and had grown used to deciding who would come next. Power passed to the

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One of the most famous masterpieces of ancient Egyptian art, found in the temple complex beside the pyramid of the pharaoh Khafre at Giza: the diorite statue of Khafre, dating from around 2570 BC

Diorite is one of the hardest stones. But the remarkable feature of this sculpture is its composition: before us stands a statue that changes with the angle of view. Look at it from the front and you see the pharaoh's perfect face; from the side the god Horus

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I have told this story before, but in view of the alternative news I shall repeat myself

In 1913 a number of English-language newspapers carried an article reporting that several chambers of a temple-like character had been discovered inside the Great Sphinx. The text claimed that a fairly large room existed both inside the head and inside the body, and that in one of these

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A second Sphinx may lie beneath the Giza plateau

A second Sphinx may have been discovered beneath the Giza plateau. The team of researchers claims to be 80% certain of its find. The monumental statue is said to lie buried under 55 metres of hardened sand. A group of Italian enthusiasts used satellite radar to corroborate an existing image

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Skeleton discovered during repair of damaged floor in the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Maastricht is believed to be that of d'Artagnan, the real-life officer who inspired Dumas's hero

Beside the skeleton were found a French coin of the late seventeenth century and fragments of a musket ball. DNA has been extracted from the skeleton's teeth and sent for analysis to a laboratory in Munich; the results will be compared with the DNA of known descendants of

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A Youth Meditating by the Sea

A marble slab from Piraeus, now in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Demokleides, son of Demetrios, a hoplite, that is, a heavy infantryman. He died in a naval battle off Corinth in 394 BC, in the course of the Corinthian War: Sparta against a coalition of Athens, Thebes, Corinth

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A photograph published by the Lebanese outlet Jdeed Magazine shows evidence of an air strike on Baalbek: a column of black smoke rising behind the columns of the Temple of Jupiter

A photograph published by the Lebanese outlet Jdeed Magazine shows evidence of an air strike on Baalbek: a column of black smoke rising behind the columns of the Temple of Jupiter. It is the closest to the site of any strike documented during the present war. The NNA agency reported

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Pharaoh Nectanebo I, founder of the dynasty of the last rulers of Ancient Egypt, offers a loaf of bread, in a depiction from Alexandria, 370 BC

Our Daily Bread

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Large-scale restoration of the Colosseum completed: to be precise, of the area beneath the lost part of the colonnade and the semicircular piazza before the arena, where Roman spectators once crowded under two galleries of marble columns up to 50 metres h

The large-scale restoration of the Colosseum has been completed, or, to be precise, of the area beneath the lost part of the colonnade and the semicircular piazza before the arena, where Roman spectators once crowded under two galleries of marble columns up to 50 metres high. In these galleries

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The orchestra of the Odeon in Athens is still paved with the same chequerboard marble as in AD 161

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I rather feel I have failed a primary-school task from the magazine for the youngest pioneers "Yozh" (The Hedgehog), November 1933

Applied art history for children, then, disguised as a training exercise for the eye. And if the spires and towers of Piazza San Marco in Venice are more or less clear, the second question, what the little figures at the bottom are made of, has proved a genuine puzzle to