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In Padula, Campania, the discovery of nineteen ancient tombs has uncovered valuable artifacts, including a rare diobol coin ...

The niece of King Charles III of Great Britain, Princess Beatrice, and her husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi became parents. On January 22, their daughter was born, named after the ancient Greek goddess ...

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WASHINGTON — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...