Archaeologists think the tiles once lined a Byzantine-era monastery. The complex also included a large warehouse and winepress ...

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The space rock—recorded with visuals and sound—landed where the homeowner had been standing just minutes earlier ...

Scientists placed the extinct species, which may date back more than 300,000 years, in the same genus as modern leopard cats in Asia ...

The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her ...

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