The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

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Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no learning and no translation—making emojis akin to the earlist forms of writing.

A multitude of mysteries remain unsolved about the ancient Greek world, providing more questions than answers.

An oligarchy is a form of government where a small group of people — typically, the very wealthy — holds most or all of the ...

The world’s oldest erotic graffiti was discovered in 2014 in Astypalaia, a remote island in Dodecanese, Greece.

I n 2005, the late conservative writer Lawrence Auster published a response to one of his critics. The critic argued that ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...

Some are ancient – such as Delphi, where the ancient Greeks consulted the oracle – others, such the tomb of Evita Perón in Buenos Aires, Argentina, more modern. Despite her book’s subtitle, Hurlock ...

As a scholar of ancient ... Greek and a university professor, he spends many hours sitting almost every day. And all his desk work, which may appear to be mainly work of the mind—reading and ...

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Over 200 canals and 4,000 smaller channels identified in Iraq The system supplied water to farms before the first millennium B.C. A shift in the Euphrates River led to the canals becoming obsolete ...