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Nero’s Statue at Corinth: A Relic of Rome’s Gift of Freedom
The forgotten statue of Nero at the Isthmus of Corinth is a relic of the time the Roman emperor granted freedom to a part of ancient Greece.
A 2,000-year-old statue is found abandoned in a garbage bag in Greece
Police said Wednesday that a marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found abandoned in a ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN4d
See the Haunting Stone Face of a Ptolemaic Statue Unearthed Near the Ancient Egyptian City of Alexandria
The statue was found at Taposiris Magna, an archaeological site where some researchers suspect Cleopatra and Mark Antony are ...
5 of the best views in Rome for a breath-taking look at the Italian capital
Want to see a destination from the best vantage? Up the altitude. Here are the top spots from which to appreciate the Eternal ...
Man discovers a 2,000-year-old Greek treasure in a street trash bag: “It likely wasn’t the temple’s main statue”
Authorities in Greece are investigating after a 2,000-year-old marble statue was discovered wrapped in a trash bag and ...
Billionaire wants to build statue of Virgin Mary taller than Christ the Redeemer
A Polish billionaire and his wife have just announced plans to build a statue of the Virgin Mary in his home country.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son are AI’s new power couple
In his newly built palace near Tokyo, lined by stone statues of Roman emperors and surrounded by an 18-hole golf course, ...
The oldest evidence for lead pollution comes from ancient Greece
Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea ...
Manila Bulletin6d
Travels in Egypt (Part Three)
Alexandria is a city in northern Egypt on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the second largest city in Egypt and is ...
On the ground in Palmyra, where a Syrian archaeological gem hopes for a revival
PALMYRA, Syria — Abdurahman Abu Hamza, a farmer from the Syrian city of Deir Ezzour, last visited the ancient ruins of ...
All That's Interesting on MSN5d
Egyptian Blue: The Prized Dye Used In Egyptian Mummy Portraits, Roman Frescoes, And Renaissance Masterpieces
Archaeologists excavating the remains of Rome's "Golden House," the opulent palace that Emperor Nero built for himself right ...
Incredible haul of Bible-era British gold coins found in the Netherlands ‘were spoils of war from conquering Romans’
A STASH of hundreds of Bible-era coins have been found by metal detectors in The Netherlands. The haul of over 400 early ...