Neanderthals and other extinct human lineages might have been ancient mariners, venturing to the Mediterranean islands thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
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Watch CITY BENEATH THE WAVES: PAVLOPETRI Saturday, June 2, 2012 at 8PM e/p on Discovery. | http://dsc.discovery.com/#mkcpgn=ytdsc1 | Watch as these divers ex... READ MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlopetri
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Evolution crafted pint-sized pachyderm on Mediterranean island. VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCRbJZaOTUc&feature=colike
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A study by American scientists with contribution by a Greek neuroscientist is very close to understanding the mysteries of the brain. Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?page=1&tag=neuroscience
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An ancient Greek cave preserves a Stone Age village, a burial ground, and signs of prehistoric rituals.
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New media, new technology, new politics, new products and services, new fashions and designs, new, new, new. It seems as if the world is devoted to innovation and novelty.
Charlie Wittke's curator insight,
February 28, 2014 5:30 PM
A small paragraph on how Classical Greece was ahead of its time and how influential it was.
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(AP) -- Greek disability groups expressed anger Monday at a government decision to expand a list of state-recognized disability categories to include pedophiles, exhibitionists and kleptomaniacs.
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The sectarian wars raging around the globe attest to the rigidity of many religious outlooks today. But in the second century BCE, residents on the Greek island of Delos saw nothing wrong with using others' gods in their prayers.
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Bactrian Greeks ruled Peshawar, Taxila for 200 years. Some Greek cultural peculiarities became part of Pakhtun mores.
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The Greeks were not always in such dire financial straits as today. But whether it is necessary to look as far back as these Bonn archeologists did in order to see a huge, flourishing Greek commercial area?
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There are signs that health outcomes in Greece have worsened during the financial crisis, especially in vulnerable groups.
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Emory students and scholars, under the direction of Bonna Wescoat, Professor of Art History, are working together to investigate the visibility of the Parthenon frieze by recreating reliefs (currently on view London and Athens museums) and installing them on the Nashville Parthenon.
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Archaeologists in Greece's second-largest city have uncovered a 70-meter (230-foot) section of an ancient road built by the Romans that was the city's main travel artery nearly 2,000 years ago.
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All the most fundamental institutions of a functioning society—healthcare, education, criminal justice, banking, politics– “do not work the way that they should.” Our carrots and sticks seem to miss the point, or make things worse. To resolve the problem one need only return to the ancient Greeks. “We need virtue,” he said. “A virtue that Aristotle referred to as ‘practical wisdom.’” It is very simple, really. Practical wisdom is “the will to do the right thing and the skill to figure out what the right thing is. “
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In the winter of 479 B.C., a tsunami was the savior of Potidaea, drowning hundreds of Persian invaders as they lay siege to the ancient Greek village.
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A virtual Tour of Acropolis Athens Greece with 360 panorama and Gigapixel Images...
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Two cuneiform astrological tablets in the British Museum provide the first evidence for Babylonian knowledge of the so-called "doctrine of the Terms" of Greco-Roman astrology (BM 36326 and BM 36628+36817+37197). Greek, Latin, and Egyptian astrological sources for the various systems of Terms and their origin are reviewed, followed by preliminary editions and translations of the relevant sections of the tablets. The system of Terms is shown to be so far the most technically complex component of Greek astrology to originate in Babylonia. Over the course of the Hellenistic period an Egyptian origin was ascribed to the systems of Terms as it was combined with components of Greek horoscopic astrology. By Ptolemy's day, this spurious history had largely displaced the true.
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Financial woes spur controversial reforms of the country's research system.
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Two masks found in a grave during excavations in the central Anatolian province of Eskişehir’s Şarhöyük-Dorylaion Necropolis site are expected to shed light on ancient culture. The masks date back to 1 A.D.
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Researchers performing DNA analysis on Greek amphorae have been able to determine the contents, shedding some light on ancient food trade.
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More than 200 international philosophers braved strikes and protests to come to Greece this month to join a forum and debate matters of the mind.
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Why harmony pleases the brain “The key to pleasant music may be that it pleases our neurons. A new model suggests that harmonious musical intervals trigger a rhythmically consistent firing pattern in...
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