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In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

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One of the fundamental beliefs of the Ancient Greeks was that their beloved gods were immortal, but were they? How did they die?

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Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

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In fact, it was such a significant civilization that people who study ancient Egyptian history have a special name: Egyptologists. Keep reading to learn all about why ancient Egypt was so influential.