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Sacrifice before battle - An ancient Greek ritual
Shortly before the Persian Wars, the ancient Greeks developed a new ritual, known as the sphagia, in which a male sacrificial animal would be kille...
Scholars Just Removed a High-Ranking Mummy From Her Coffin; to Discover She Was Buried With a Secret Painting
Conservators at the Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Scotland made a surprising discovery when they cracked open the coffin of a nearly 3,000-year-o...
Tutankhamen head fetches millions at UK auction despite Egypt's protests
A brown quartzite head of young king Tutankhamen sold at auction in London for more than 4.7 million pounds on Thursday, in the face of Egyptian de...
Greek Archaeologists Make Major Discovery at Battle of Salamis Site
Marine archaeologists are announcing that they have discovered underwater artifacts at the site of a building where the naval battle of Salamis was...
Antiquities: The Hottest Investment
By Maria Baugh Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007
The sculpture is just three and a half inches tall and looks like a female body-builder with a lion's head...