I’ve got the samurai spirit. I’d rather commit seppuku than fail,” Musk, then in his 20s, told an investor, according to a ...

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The ancient silver coins feature the images of 11 Roman emperors and empresses, including Nero and Marcus Aurelius.

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

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Authorities on the Greek island of Crete have arrested six people allegedly involved in an antiquities smuggling operation ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history. Archaeologists from Egypt and the U.S. unearthed the tomb ...

Molecular analysis has determined that a jawbone recovered off Taiwan’s coast came from a Denisovan, showing that this enigmatic lineage of archaic humans once inhabited a vast expanse in eastern ...

Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were frequently painted in warm colours. A recent study from Denmark has now discovered that some of these sculptures were ...

In ancient Greece, education wasn’t limited to the mind — it included the body as well. Physical fitness and scholarly pursuits went hand-in-hand, a principle reflected in the number of gymnasiums ...

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