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While exploring the ruins of Finziade, the last Greek colony on the island of Sicily, archaeologists discovered a mold that [ ...

The era in which Strabo lived, the saddle between the first centuries bc and ad, was highly receptive to kolossourgiai. The ...

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A mysterious stone engraved with carvings nearly 1,700 years old has been discovered in a historically rich region believed ...

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City of Perga on Turkey’s southwestern Mediterranean coast was renowned in ancient world for production of marble statues ...