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Archaeologists from Selcuk University have made a remarkable discovery of mosaics featuring aquatic creatures during their excavations in Herakleia. Known as Latmos in the Archaic and Classical ...

A Roman mosaic in Alter do Chão, Portugal, depicts Alexander the Great's clash with King Porus—one of only three such mosaics ...

Archaeologists in Licata, Sicily, have uncovered an intriguing artifact from the ancient city of Finziade: a mold used to create masks depicting Medusa, the famous Greek mythological figure. This ...

The few that could be opened were philosophical texts written in ancient Greek. But most of the scrolls were so badly damaged, they were considered illegible. More recently, researchers managed to ...

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Included in the finds were ancient stone hand axes that date back to as far as 1.5 million years ago. The ancient lake that has long been home to all of these hand axes offers a peak into the ...