An excavation on the Greek island of Evia uncovered an unknown temple near the Temple of Amarysia Artemis still overflowing ...

How was the great English playwright William Shakespeare influenced by ancient Greece, and how did he come to know about its ...

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Stone age humans were using poison for hunting far longer than previously believed. In A Nutshell Chemical traces survived ...

American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

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Some DNA passed down from ancient hunter-gatherers has been found to be a crucial force in living to be 100 years old.

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Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1935, von Däniken rose to prominence when he published Chariots of the Gods? while working as a hotel manager in Davos. The book posed a provocative question that ...