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2023 Summer Was Hottest In 2,000 Years. But 2024 Could Top It
The summer of 2023 was hotter than any other in the Northern Hemisphere for the past two millennia, according to a study published Tuesday in Nature.
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Researchers Find 1,400-Year-Old Rooms Under Jerusalem's Western Wall
Israeli researchers on Tuesday unveiled mysterious underground rooms with an unknown function, carved out of the bedrock near where the Second Jewish Temple is believed to have stood two millennia ago.
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Secret Chamber Painted With Centaurs, Sphinx Uncovered At Nero Palace
A team of archaeologists have discovered a secret chamber decorated with detailed frescoes during restoration work at Emperor Nero's Domus Aurea or Golden Palace constructed two millennia ago.
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Balsamic Vinegar - Italy's Most Famous Flavouring AgentÂ
While vinegar existed in Italy for over two millennia, the first mention of an extremely refined vinegar goes back to 1000 AD, to the town of Canossa near the provinces of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Locals gifted a passing emperor a bottle of this vinegar.
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Scientists Discover The Secret To Ancient Roman 'Gate To Hell'
Two millennia ago, a small Greco-Roman temple in present-day Turkey awed and enthralled its residents. Just beyond its stone gate, in a grotto shrouded in a heavy mist, a strange force worked dark deeds: Bulls ushered inside would lie down and perish; the castrated priests in charge would emerge unscathed.
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Secret Tut Chamber? Egypt Calls Experts To Examine Evidence
Egypt today invited archaeologists from all over the world to examine new, more extensive scanning conducted on King Tutankhamun's tomb to discover whether chambers have been hidden for millennia behind two walls in the boy king's burial place and determine what could be inside.
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Tibet's Glaciers at Their Warmest in 2,000 Years: Report
The Tibetan plateau, whose glaciers supply water to hundreds of millions of people in Asia, were warmer over the past 50 years than at any stage in the past two millennia, a Chinese newspaper said, citing an academic report.
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Ancient Christian Population of Mosul Flees Islamic State
The ancient Christian community of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul had all but fled by Saturday, ending a presence stretching back nearly two millennia after radical Islamists set them a midday deadline to submit to Islamic rule or leave.
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Two millennia old copy of Ten Commandments, Isaac Newton's notes now online
A copy of The Ten Commandments dating back two millennia is now freely available online to the world as part of a Cambridge University digital project.
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2023 Summer Was Hottest In 2,000 Years. But 2024 Could Top It
The summer of 2023 was hotter than any other in the Northern Hemisphere for the past two millennia, according to a study published Tuesday in Nature.
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Researchers Find 1,400-Year-Old Rooms Under Jerusalem's Western Wall
Israeli researchers on Tuesday unveiled mysterious underground rooms with an unknown function, carved out of the bedrock near where the Second Jewish Temple is believed to have stood two millennia ago.
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Secret Chamber Painted With Centaurs, Sphinx Uncovered At Nero Palace
A team of archaeologists have discovered a secret chamber decorated with detailed frescoes during restoration work at Emperor Nero's Domus Aurea or Golden Palace constructed two millennia ago.
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Balsamic Vinegar - Italy's Most Famous Flavouring AgentÂ
While vinegar existed in Italy for over two millennia, the first mention of an extremely refined vinegar goes back to 1000 AD, to the town of Canossa near the provinces of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Locals gifted a passing emperor a bottle of this vinegar.
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Scientists Discover The Secret To Ancient Roman 'Gate To Hell'
Two millennia ago, a small Greco-Roman temple in present-day Turkey awed and enthralled its residents. Just beyond its stone gate, in a grotto shrouded in a heavy mist, a strange force worked dark deeds: Bulls ushered inside would lie down and perish; the castrated priests in charge would emerge unscathed.
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Secret Tut Chamber? Egypt Calls Experts To Examine Evidence
Egypt today invited archaeologists from all over the world to examine new, more extensive scanning conducted on King Tutankhamun's tomb to discover whether chambers have been hidden for millennia behind two walls in the boy king's burial place and determine what could be inside.
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Tibet's Glaciers at Their Warmest in 2,000 Years: Report
The Tibetan plateau, whose glaciers supply water to hundreds of millions of people in Asia, were warmer over the past 50 years than at any stage in the past two millennia, a Chinese newspaper said, citing an academic report.
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Ancient Christian Population of Mosul Flees Islamic State
The ancient Christian community of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul had all but fled by Saturday, ending a presence stretching back nearly two millennia after radical Islamists set them a midday deadline to submit to Islamic rule or leave.
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Two millennia old copy of Ten Commandments, Isaac Newton's notes now online
A copy of The Ten Commandments dating back two millennia is now freely available online to the world as part of a Cambridge University digital project.
