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The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

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Historian teams up with Chris Tomlin and Hillsong’s Ben Fielding to adapt rare music dating back to the third century.

The word itself predates Christianity, but the conclave with its secretive deliberations and ancient trappings still captures ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

Scans of 18 ancient papyri that were buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius look ‘very promising’, and there are plans to ...

A sweeping new archaeological discovery could fundamentally reshape what we know about early human intelligence and cultural ...