The Roman Empire has never ceased to fascinate the world, even after the fall of its western half 1½ millennia ago. And with ...

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Myanmar's religious temples stood as symbols of faith and history. After the recent 7.7 magnitude earthquake, many are ...

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A new study presents a different theory, which challenges existing ideas about early class structures Cool Finds The 3-year-old picked up an ancient Canaanite scarab that dates back to the Middle ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

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