The mythical sentry was depicted as thinking like a human and showing some human-like tendencies New Research Historians think the 2,000-year-old device was used to predict the positions of ...

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Ancient Greek mythology and art depict lions. Did lions once live in Greece? Larry Rideout | Boston ... Jennifer Levasseur, curator of space history, National Air and Space Museum Please explain ...

That image is dead wrong, according to modern scholars. Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color as well as form; the white marble statues we admire looked stunningly different in ...

History’s ... from classical Greece. Overall, the ship yielded one of the most impressive collections of treasures ever recovered from antiquity. Hundreds of ancient cargo ships have been ...

Nobody recognized its significance until decades after its discovery Julia Binswanger Soon to be on display at the National Museum of American History ... with the ancient fighters reached ...

ancient rites, history and divination. The sixth, on music, may have disappeared in the 3rd-century-B.C. “Burning of Books and Burying of Scholars.” More than 2,000 scholars contributed to ...

Sarah Parcak | Smithsonian Magazine’s 2016 American Ingenuity Award Winner for History This tech-savvy ... she has located an astonishing number of ancient Egyptian remains—thousands of ...