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This sixth-century pectoral comprises 14 Byzantine gold coins and a gold disc gathered over two centuries.

A middle-aged woman continuously shed tears before the golden mask of a young pharaoh excavated from 3,300 years of darkness.

Teotihuacan, Cahokia, and other metropolises featured striking religious centers, multifamily dwellings, and burial mounds, only to vanish. Archaeology is slowly revealing their splendid pasts.

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For the ancient Mesopotamians, hell was a distant place, across an ocean of death, located at the end of the world. But for the ancient Greeks and their Neolithic ancestors, the gates to the ...

With over 100 Gods to play in the first game, developer Hi-Rez had to be wise when choosing which Gods would be ported to Smite 2 first. With an initially quite modest roster, here are the currently ...