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adds that the statue’s model may have been a prominent public figure or member of the elite, but he likely wasn’t a king, underscoring the importance of Taposiris Magna during the Ptolemaic ...

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Ashraf Omar Eldarir, 52, admitted to smuggling nearly 600 Egyptian artifacts into the United States, many of them so freshly ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...

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Eric Adams had made repeated overtures to the president before the Justice Department directed that the corruption charges against the mayor be dismissed.

Born Francois-Marie Arouet in 1694, this celebrated playwright, poet, essayist, and philosopher reinvented himself as simply “Voltaire” in 1718. Candide is his most enduring work—a raw, rollicking, ...

When Alessandro Michele was growing up in Rome in the 1970s, one of his favorite pastimes was to rummage through his mother’s closet and to run his hands over the rustling taffeta, glinting sequins, ...