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He taught Ancient Texts at Oxford. Now Accused of Stealing Some.

[ad_1] He had the perfect credentials. Nobody objects to this. Dirk Obbink was a respected lecturer at Oxford University. He received a MacArthur Foundation grant in 2001 for his work on papyrus and was in an important role helping to run the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, the world’s largest collection of ancient papyrus. Egyptian Exploration Society and …

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Ancient Footprints Push Back the History of Human Arrival in the Americas

[ad_1] The ancient human footprints preserved at the site across from New Mexico’s White Sands National Park are surprisingly old. scientists have reported On Thursday, it dates back to the Ice Age, about 23,000 years ago. The results, if they continued to study, would revive the scientific debate about how humans first spread to the …

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A New Cultural Center in the Ancient Greek Harbor

[ad_1] On an extremely warm July evening, a crowd mingled and drank wine at an art opening on Polidefkous Street. In the industrial port city of Piraeus on Athens’ southeast side, a modest street lined with lowly shipbuilders and metalworkers has not historically been a place where galleries opened up shop. But despite the derelict-looking …

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‘Spaceship Shaped’ Fossil Reveals Ancient Ocean’s Hungry Predator

[ad_1] About 506 million years ago, a predator swept the silt floors of the Cambrian ocean. Rakelike feed arms sifted through the mud it had raised and guided the soft-bodied worms into a constricting, round mouth. In 2018, a team of paleontologists from the Royal Ontario Museum discovered the preserved shell of this ancient predator …

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Judge Rejects Turkey’s Claim That Ancient Sculpture Was Looted.

[ad_1] The marble idol, a smooth figure about nine inches high with its head slightly tilted upward, has been on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for over two decades. It was probably created between 4800 and 4100 BC in what is now Turkey’s Manisa Province. For years, its presence in New York received …

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‘Yakuza Princess’ Review: Crime, Amnesia, and Ancient Swords

[ad_1] You know he wasn’t kidding from the opening scene of this movie. Set in “20 years ago” Osaka, the blue-colored sequence depicts a solemn ceremony that is shattered by bloody gun-assisted assassinations and ends with a young boy putting a bullet in the neck. That’s why when I say “he’s not kidding” I mean …

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Searching for Birdlife in an Ancient ‘Forest Ocean’

[ad_1] Andrea Morales Rozo, who teaches biology at the Universidad de los Llanos in central Colombia, guided the team through the nets that he masterfully saved birds from harm. Ms. Morales Rozo examines the blackpoll warbler, a migratory species between the Amazon and Canada; was part of a group that recently compared museum specimens and …

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Prominent Historian of Ancient Greece Donald Kagan dies at 89

[ad_1] Ms. Kagan, an elementary school teacher and author of two books on the history of New Haven, Conn., died in 2017. Professor Kagan’s sons are left with two grandchildren. Professor Kagan’s “Origins of War and Keeping Peace” (1994) was influential among foreign policy hawks, arguing that leaders should show not only strength but also …

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Greek Villages Evacuated as Forest Fires Threaten Ancient Sites

[ad_1] ATHENS — As Southern Europe grapples with one of the worst heatwaves in decades, deadly bushfires have gripped much of the region, bringing tourism to a standstill and mandating mass evacuations. Violent fires have seen beachside tourist destinations in the area abandoned as the flames force residents to migrate from Greek islands and villages …

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Greek Villages Evacuated as Forest Fires Threaten Ancient Sites

[ad_1] ATHENS — As Southern Europe grapples with one of the worst heatwaves in decades, deadly bushfires have gripped much of the region, bringing tourism to a standstill and mandating mass evacuations. Violent fires have seen beachside tourist destinations in the area abandoned as the flames force residents to migrate from Greek islands and villages …

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