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Isis Nursing Horus

Ceramic figurine of the Ptolemaic period. Metropolitan Museum. Figurines of this type appear long before the Ptolemaic era. In fact, the iconography of the "Madonna and Child" took shape in Egypt 2,000 years before the birth of Jesus

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Mosaic with the face of the Gorgon Medusa from the ancient odeon in the ancient city of Kibyra, in Turkey's Burdur Province

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Mount Nemrut in south-eastern Turkey is famous for the tomb of Antiochus I, who lived from 69 to 34 BC and ruled Commagene, an ancient Armenian kingdom of the Hellenistic period in Asia Minor

Mount Nemrut in south-eastern Turkey is famous for the tomb of Antiochus I, who lived from 69 to 34 BC and ruled Commagene, an ancient Armenian kingdom of the Hellenistic period in Asia Minor. The history of the Commagenian kingdom unfolded at the meeting point of Persian and Greek

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Newton's alchemical laboratory in his Cambridge years stood in the garden of Trinity College, between the chapel and the college gate; its exact location is unknown, but the approximate site was established by excavations, in which were found…

Newton's alchemical laboratory in his Cambridge years stood in the garden of Trinity College, between the chapel and the college gate. Its exact location is unknown, but the approximate site was established by excavations, in which waste from chemical experiments was found. It is known that Newton devoted

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Lady Gaga Has Died

Lady Gaga has died. At least, so we must believe if we trust a letter reporting on a Lady Gaga who lived in ancient Babylon

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Two workmen unearth a 2,000-year-old sculpture of the Diadumenos on the Greek island of Delos

Two workmen have unearthed a 2,000-year-old sculpture of the Diadumenos on the Greek island of Delos, that is, a victorious athlete tying the red ribbon of triumph around his head. It is one of the many copies of a lost bronze original by the ancient Greek sculptor

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A Delightful Piece of Work from the Late 4th Century BC

A delightful piece of work from the late 4th century BC. This bronze krater with Dionysian scenes was found in a burial near Thessaloniki. The craftsmen achieved its golden gleam through a high tin content

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A reminder of what Cleopatra looked like, the last ruler of Ancient Egypt, a member of the Greco-Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty

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The Abduction of Europa, a drawing on a Greek vase of the 4th century BC found at Paestum, a Greek colony in Italy

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The City of Dreams: Athens in the Second Century

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During the building of the pyramid of King Neferirkare, the tallest of the Fifth Dynasty pyramids, one of the officials in charge of its construction was so overcome by the pharaoh's visit that he died of fright

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The chief exhibit, perhaps, of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, the so-called Alexander Sarcophagus, like much in Turkey, does not correspond to its name in the least

The chief exhibit, perhaps, of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, the so-called Alexander Sarcophagus, like much in Turkey, does not correspond to its name in the least. In truth, it is connected with Alexander only by a coincidence of dating and by the fact that the king appears in one