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Asian cities founded by Alexander the Great and the successive Greek dynasties. According to the principle they observed, these cities and their inhabitants became Greek citizens. Such cities are marked with yellow and green stars. As for Maracanda, or Samarkand, it is believed to have existed long before Alexander the
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An Iranian silver wine cup with a griffin holds 1.5 litres of wine. Its age: more than 2,500 years
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Today, before the rock-cut temple of Nefertari, the first wife of Ramesses II, there lies not the bank of the Nile but desert. How did this come about? Let us see. The temple was built in the mid-thirteenth century BC, after the victory over the Hittites, and was
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The goddess of chance Tyche was depicted not only with a cornucopia and a ship's rudder, but also wearing a crown in the form of city walls. Popular in the Hellenistic age, the goddess was regarded as the patroness of cities. Female statues with a fortress tower on
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The Spanish archaeologist Manuel Esteve poses in a Corinthian helmet he has discovered. 1938
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In Trento, Italy, a large Iron Age burial ground with some 200 tombs has been found during the restoration of a historic building. The burials survived thanks to ancient floods, which "sealed" the site for 2,500 years. The tombs contained cremated remains, as well as objects such
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A bronze statue of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, held by the Cleveland Museum of Art (USA), is to be returned to Turkey after years of scholarly and legal inquiry. The statue, dated to the 2nd–3rd centuries AD, was illegally removed from the ancient city of Bubon in the
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Herodotus describes Babylon as a square city with sides of 120 stadia. One stadium is about 175 metres, so the area of Babylon, according to Herodotus, was 441 square kilometres, the size of 4 modern Parises or half of New York. Quite an enormous city to have in the desert.
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In the night of 24 to 25 January, four valuable archaeological exhibits were stolen from the Drents Museum in Assen (the Netherlands): the Helmet of Coțofenești and three Dacian gold bracelets. All the exhibits had been lent by the National Museum of Romanian History for the exhibition “Dacia: Empire of
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