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The sweat of ancient Greek and Roman athletes was a prized commodity believed to confer special health benefits.

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Work to give 21st-century London yet another skyscraper has uncovered traces — in fact chunks — of the city’s origins almost ...

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The team ventured into the partially flooded cave as part of an ongoing research project. See what they found inside.

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Still, the Hole rune stones are “a rare example of finding several fragments of a rune-stone” in “well-preserved, datable ...