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It didn’t rain frequently in ancient Egypt, but when it did, says Sapienza University of Rome archaeologist Aneta Skalec, it could come down so violently that it led to legal quarrels between ...

The rocky island of Samothrace in the northern Aegean Sea was home to the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, enigmatic deities who were thought to grant protection to seafarers. Archaeologists have found ...

This is the main repository for the Bonsai visual programming language. It contains source code for the compiler, IDE, and standard library. With Bonsai you tell your computer what to do not through ...

Sunlight Buddhist pine Bonsai trees love bright sunlight. They can even develop problems if they are not exposed to enough light. Soil Moist, well-draining soil. Any specialty Bonsai soil mixture ...

This article examines a fresco found during 1982 at the Black Sea site of the third century BC city of Nymphaeum. The vessel in question shown in the fresco may have been a “one-off” built for a ...

Cleopatra VII had four children. One with Julius Caesar and three with Mark Antony. Until 31 BC the family of the last Ptolemaic queen lived a magnificent life in a golden palace, one of the most ...

Egyptian temple culture was thought to be declining in the Ptolemaic era, after the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Nothing could be further from the truth, says Egyptologist Carina van den ...

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