For the past three years, archaeologists have been excavating underneath the altar to remove two huge slabs of marble and now, for the first time in almost 1,700 years, the sarcophagus of St Paul is ...

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The site's archaeological museum is showing the work of the artist Vuslat among its artefacts to build a bridge between ...

In a softly lit crypt beneath the chapel of the U.S. Naval Academy, a massive sarcophagus of veined marble rests on the backs of four bronze dolphins. At a respectful distance from the tomb ...

Excavations in Paros, Greece support previous suspicions that the site was once a workshop used for carving marble sculptures. The recent excavation discovered an “androna”—a social space in ...

Archaeologists recently unsealed a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus in the Tomb of Cerberus, located in Giugliano, near Naples, Italy. This remarkable discovery offers an unprecedented glimpse into ancient ...

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Experts working in the Tomb of Cerberus in Giugliano, an area in Naples, unsealed a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus. Inside they found the remains of a ...

"If it had landed in a different spot, it could’ve compromised the concrete sarcophagus enveloping the reactor. Then we’d be dealing with a very different situation." But the expert warned ...

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