U.S. troops accused of damaging Babylon's ancient wonder
The U.S. military did major damage to the site of one of the wonders of the ancient world while converting it into a base, the United Nations said in a new report. The site of the Hanging Gardens of ...
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Ceramics reveal the boundaries of Western Europe’s first state
El Argar had a centralized system for the production and distribution of its pottery vessels and clay objects, all made from material sourced from a single location ...
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History of the Death Penalty
In the 18th Century BC, the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon codified the death penalty for twenty five different crimes, although murder was not one of them. The first death sentence ...