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Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The Ottoman Empire's apparent religious tolerance was a mechanism for control, involving population surveillance and internal passports. Non-Muslim religious ...

Archaeologists in the Judean Desert have unearthed a “mysterious pyramid-shaped structure” dating back 2,200 years. The evacuation was a joint mission between the Israel Antiquities Authority ...

Other findings in recent years include scrolls hidden in caves, papyrus fragments, wooden utensils and leather goods. Such ancient artifacts, including those recently found at the pyramid site ...

The camels-decorated 1,200-years-old clay jug. A rare and striking red-painted clay jug, approximately 1,200 years old and used for liquid storage, has been uncovered in excavations led by the ...

Gloucestershire Police have explained why there was a cordon and a large number of police officers outside Gloucester Cathedral today. Emergency services were called to the cathedral early this ...

A former garage owner and beloved husband of 73 years has passed away. Dennis Bishop, a great granddad to five, passed away on March 10. He's remembered as having "touched the lives of many" and ...

Some of the papyrus fragments contain writing in ancient Greek, one of the languages spoken by denizens of both the Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires. Also among the unearthed artifacts are bronze ...

Pamela Bach’s cause of death has been officially confirmed three weeks after she died aged 61. Bach, who was married to David Hasselhoff for 17 years, was best known for her roles in Baywatch ...

Icebergs, as everyone knows, lie mostly below the surface of the waves. What we see is just the tip. But no one dreamed before now that the same might be true of Egypt’s Great Pyramids at Giza ...

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Emil Aladjem, Israel Antiquities Authority. Among the findings so far are papyrus documents written in Greek, Ptolemaic, and Antiochus IV bronze coins, weapons, wooden tools, and well-preserved ...