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1. Wonder-Woman Playing Cleopatra Sparks Racial Controversy

   There is perhaps no better way of instigating argument in modern society than bringing up ethnicity, race or gender, and with this in mind I petition that you, the reader, to stay on “my side” throughout this article, no matter how sensitive it gets. Ancient Origins does not want to take a side, but just to try to work out if there is actually an answer in this debate.

   ashley cowie - 15/10/2020 - 22:03

2. Scientists Learn Ingredients of 2,000-Year-Old Roman Pills Found in Ancient Shipwreck

   Discoveries of ancient shipwrecks are always exciting, but a small number of them are truly unique in the artifacts they yield, offering up items from the past that have been preserved for centuries at the bottom of the sea. The finding of a 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck, known as the Relitto del Pozzino, which had sunk off the coast of Tuscany in Italy was one of these cases.

   aprilholloway - 09/07/2017 - 01:55

3. The Mysterious Gardens of Babylon may not have been in Babylon at All!

   According to new research, the legendary Gardens of Babylon, famous for being one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, may not have been in Babylon at all, but rather 340 miles north of that location in Nineveh, on the Tigris River, Iraq.

   aprilholloway - 02/06/2013 - 01:44

4. The History of Boxing: Gory Gladiatorial Origins, Back Street Venues, and Big Money

   Boxing is the most popular spectator combat sport in the modern world and its champions earn more than most other professional sportsmen. The defining fight of this big money era was the 2015 Mayweather Vs Pacquiao event that earned Mayweather an estimated $120 million and Pacquiao around $80 million, but to understand the history of boxing we must go back not hundreds, but thousands of years in human history, to a much more primal and blood thirstier time.

   ashley cowie - 07/11/2018 - 18:41

5. Forgotten Moorish Sites in Murcia Hold Treasures Yet to Be Discovered

   ... Initially establishing their Capital in Damascus (in Syria), they were successful from 661-750 AD until they were ...

   Gisele Santos - 11/11/2015 - 03:50

6. Colne Priory – Revisiting the Excavation Of The Earls Of Oxford’s Tomb Sites

   ... Museum, she researched and excavated at sites in Egypt, Syria, and Israel. She works at the Military Intelligence ...

   Rebecca Batley - 19/09/2022 - 21:19

7. 1,000-Year-Old Case of Syndrome Causing Small Testes Found in Portugal

   The oldest clinical case of Klinefelter Syndrome has been detected in a 1,000-year-old Portuguese skeleton. Klinefelter Syndrome is a super rare genetic but non-hereditary condition that gives men an extra X chromosome (also called the “47,XXY” syndrome). The genetic condition was found in an 11th-century skeleton found in northeastern Portugal.

   Sahir - 28/08/2022 - 18:51

8. Israel's Tel Shimron Excavations Reveal Ancient Architectural Marvel Dating to 1,800 BC

   ... BC) have been uncovered at several sites in Lebanon , Syria , Jordan and Egypt. But the passageway is one of a ...

   Nathan Falde - 23/08/2023 - 22:55

9. Alexander's Legacy: The Hellenistic Period and the Dawn of a New Era

   ... three dynasties: the Ptolemies of Egypt, the Seleucids of Syria and Persia, and the Antigonids of Greece and Macedonia. ... Far East supplied furs and iron. Wine was brought in from Syria, while papyrus, linen and glass all hailed from ...

   Robbie Mitchell - 09/04/2023 - 14:53

10. Britain’s Stanwick Oppidum: Capital Of Queen Cartimandua And The Brigantes?

    ... Museum, she researched and excavated at sites in Egypt, Syria, and Israel. She works at the Military Intelligence ...

    Rebecca Batley - 17/08/2022 - 20:29

11. One of the Oldest Islamic Holy Sites in the World Discovered in Israel

    ... ‘ Great Mosque ’ or ‘Ummayad Mosque' in Damascus, Syria, this humble little mosque was an “open-air ...

    ashley cowie - 24/07/2019 - 06:30

12. Richborough Fort, Ruins Of The Gateway To Roman Britain

    ... Museum, she researched and excavated at sites in Egypt, Syria, and Israel. She works at the Military Intelligence ...

    Rebecca Batley - 26/06/2023 - 22:30

13. 450 Stolen Sumerian Tablets are on Their Way Back to Iraq, but it is Just the Tip of the Iceberg

    450 Stolen Sumerian tablets are being repatriated to Iraq with a ceremony in Washington D.C. on May 2. Many of the cuneiform texts come from a mysterious city called Irisagrig – a land from which looted artifacts are becoming increasingly common in the antiquities market.

    Alicia McDermott - 02/05/2018 - 13:58

14. New Study Indicates that Europe Owes Ancestry and Agriculture to Early Anatolian Farmers

    ... article explains:  “A settlement site at Abu Hureyra in Syria previously gained plenty of attention because of a ...

    Mark Miller - 05/01/2016 - 21:46

15. The Vampire burials of Poland

    The last few weeks we have been bombarded by the discovery of graves, evidence of ancient massacres and dead bodies found all over the world. But we do not hear every day about ‘vampire’ bodies! Well here we go.

    johnblack - 13/07/2013 - 13:04

16. Slave Trade and Exotic Animals Made the Ancient Port of Adulis Rich

    ... against the Seleucid dynasty - a dynasty which ruled over Syria and a large part of western Asia from 312 to 64 BC. ...

    Ed Whelan - 28/09/2019 - 02:05

17. The 4,000 Year History of Horoscopes: How Astrology Has Been Shaped Throughout the Millennia

    ... to the unknown cultures and cosmological schemes of Syria, Babylon, Persia and central Asia. It didn’t take too ...

    Theodoros Karasavvas - 09/04/2017 - 14:00

18. Not Just a Pretty Face: Cleopatra Was a Genius Who Spoke 9 Languages

    Cleopatra VII (69 – 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt and its last active ruler. Most famous for her love affairs with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar, Roman propaganda was quick to paint Cleopatra as little more than a seductress who forged her position in the beds of powerful men.

    Joanna Gillan - 15/05/2022 - 22:58

19. The Aftermath Of The Achaemenid Empire

    Between 550 and 520 BC Cyrus the Great had unified the Medes and the Persians and founded an empire that stretched from the Indus River to North Africa and from the Aral Sea to the Persian Gulf.

    micki pistorius - 07/10/2022 - 20:42

20. 7,500-year-old Juniper Stump Is Believed Oldest Goddess Asherah Idol

    ... the Levant (modern Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria) long before the peoples mentioned in the Hebrew Bible ...

    Nathan Falde - 17/05/2022 - 14:42

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