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Mount Olympus, home of the ancient Greek gods, vies for World Heritage status
14+ hour, 3+ min ago (831+ words) LITOCHORO, Greece — Snow-capped for much of the year, Mount Olympus, mythological home of ancient Greece’s 12 Olympian gods, has captured the imagination through the millennia. Rising to 2,918 meters (9,573 feet) from a base practically at sea level, the ancient Greeks believed the…...
Face-to-face with ancient Rome: Exhibition in Hungary brings forgotten faces to life
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (763+ words) BUDAPEST, Hungary — A blacksmith, a stable boy, a soldier, a slave: The faces and stories of these and other residents of an ancient Roman city in modern Hungary have been brought to life in remarkable fidelity for a new exhibition…...
John Leguizamo claims Europe stole 500,000 tons of gold from Latin people
1+ week, 3+ day ago (204+ words) Actor John Leguizamo revived a long-standing claim that European colonizers stole 500,000 tons of gold from Latin America, a figure that exceeds the total amount of gold ever mined in human history by more than double. “He gives you a perspective…...
Gold rings around 2,000 years old found during dig at Thailand archaeological site
1+ week, 5+ day ago (302+ words) BANGKOK — Two gold rings aged around 2,000 years old were discovered during an excavation at a new archaeological site in western Thailand, officials said. The rings were found with human bones during an ongoing dig at the Don Yai Thong archaeological…...
Egypt uncovers lost Byzantine-era city in the western desert
2+ week, 18+ hour ago (689+ words) CAIRO — A well-preserved Byzantine-era residential city in the western desert is one of two major archaeological finds announced by Egypt on Saturday. The recent discoveries at the Dakhla Oasis and at the Marina el-Alamein archaeological site, near Alexandria, are the…...
Italy Etruscan Tomb
2+ week, 4+ day ago (226+ words) Washington Times WATCH: IndoPac 2026 Naval Dominance: Shipbuilding, Autonomy & C2 WATCH: The Sitdown With Alex Swoyer C.J. Pearson on faith, family and fighting for Gen Z Military parade celebrates Army’s 250th Cheers and chants rang out Saturday from a crowd of thousands as soldiers…...
Italy displays paintings from an ancient Etruscan tomb, its latest cultural acquisition
2+ week, 4+ day ago (499+ words) ROME — Italy on Tuesday put on display one of the best known examples of Etruscan painting, panels from a tomb that it acquired for 15 million euros ($17 million) in the Culture Ministry’s buying spree of big-ticket pieces of the country’s cultural…...
500 years ago, the first New Testament in English was published - and stirred up a hornet’s nest
2+ week, 4+ day ago (765+ words) In 1526, books appeared in England that no one had seen before: printed New Testaments in the English language. The public snapped them up. For the first time, people read now-common phrases such as “the powers that be” and “the spirit…...
Greece Acropolis
1+ mon, 10+ hour ago (203+ words) Washington Times WATCH: The Sitdown With Alex Swoyer Sen. Chuck Grassley on Arctic Frost, judicial activism WATCH: Feds move to close commercial driver’s license loophole after deadly Virginia bus crash Anti-Weaponization Fund is down, but is it out? George Gerbo…...
Greece’s Parthenon gets a facelift, revealing a look not seen for 220 years
1+ mon, 11+ hour ago (187+ words) ATHENS, Greece — Visitors to the Acropolis can now see the Parthenon’s western side looking whole for the first time in about 220 years. Officially unveiled Thursday, restorers have slotted two new marble blocks into long-empty gaps high on the temple’s western…...