A new idea about how dogs were domesticated
They were beneficiaries of early human largesse
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Medusa defeats Perseus
Ramon Saroldi
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Melting Stone With Plants: Was the Mythical 'Green Chisel
Archaeology is not an exact science. It is full of doubts, uncertainties, surprises, and unanswered questions. One of its unsolved mysteries concerns the methods of...
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Prometheus Bound
In Prometheus bound, the famous tragedy attributed to Aeschylus, to assist the Titan, who complains of divine injustice and the gravity of his punishment, the...
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Rarely-Seen Illustrations of Dante’s Divine Comedy Are Now Free
We know Dante’s Divine Comedy—especially its famous first third, Inferno—as an extended theological treatise, epic love poem, and vicious satire of church hypocrisy and the...
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Apollo
Generally dated to around 1522, Dosso Dossi’s Apollo entered the Borghese collection, Rome, in 1659, bequeathed by Luigi Capponi as a tribute to the family...
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The Colossal Hand of Hercules, So Where is the Rest of Him?
The Hand of Hercules is the name given to a massive fragment of an ancient statue that was unearthed by archaeologists in Amman, the capital...
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Reply to @petilr in short, I love it 😂
@that.sword.guy Reply to @petilr in short, I love it 😂 ♬ original sound – That Sword Guy
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Paris and Oenone
The episode of Paris and Oenone is considered to be the best page of the poem by Quintus Smyrnaeus, from the 4th century AD. Paris...
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Check out the little Eros babies!
The gestures and actions expressed by Venus and Vulcan in this oil on canvas by Gaetano Gandolfi, painted between 1770 and 1775, led to a...
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Gaia – Mother Earth
Gaia – Mother Earth by Kristina Katunina
