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Discover the so-called "Elgin Marbles", portions of the Parthenon Marbles removed and held in the British Museum, through five iconic sculptures.
Discovered only 15 years ago from a fingerbone, the Denisovans quickly became one of our most mysterious extinct relatives.
The disappearance of the Minoans, one of the most prominent civilizations of Bronze Age Mediterranean, is shrouded in mystery. What happened to them?
The persecution of Early Christians in the Roman Empire proved a futile exercise in preventing the spread of Christianity. But why?
Ancient Rome was a patriarchal society, but the emergence of dynastic rule under the Caesars gave women an important role to play at the heart of Roman politics.
Today, many Egyptian antiquities are in Western museums because of a system called “partage,” designed to fund excavations, which has had lasting consequences.
Once celebrated as one of the world’s most sophisticated civilizations, what happened to classical Greece, and how exactly did it disappear?
Justinian I commissioned the Corpus Juris Civilis, which includes the famous Codex Justinianus (the Justinian Code).
