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CWA 119

It is hard not to see them as excessive. The glorious gold and silver vessels that graced elite banquets in the Achaemenid…

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CWA 111

Ancient visitors to the great family tombs outside the desert city of Palmyra would have come face to face with the dead.…

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CWA 110

The fame of the Incas often eclipses other ancient societies that flourished in Peru. These dazzling groups rose and fell at various…

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CWA 104

Tantra has inspired striking imagery: heavily armed gods and goddesses committing violent carnage while adorned with human body parts, or enacting acrobatic…

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CWA 103

The Ancient Egyptian cemetery at Saqqara received burials for thousands of years. One consequence of this is a remarkable concentration of funerary…

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CWA 99

The archaeological legacy of the Trojan war is immense. Greek vases pull no punches when they show Homeric heroes engaged in brutal…

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CWA 86

Giza is one of the most celebrated archaeological sites in the world. Although it is revered for its spectacular pyramids, research over…

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CWA 79

Ice Age art is as awe-inspiring as it is perplexing, an astonishing and unprecedented explosion of human creativity. Much of what we thought we…

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CWA 67

The Moche were the first empire-builders of the American continent, more than eight centuries before the Incas, and just as deserving of fame as…