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Interestingly, the fossil was found in the same archaeological layer as a coin of Augustus, the first Roman emperor.

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Apollodorus of Damascus, the Greek architectural genius who built Emperor Trajan’s Rome, from his Column to the longest ...

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According to the distinguished Renaissance humanist and scholar Girolamo Cardano (1501–1576), “Jàcopo Bonfàdio (c. 1508–1550), a man otherwise not in the last place among the erudite, because of ...

Ricci map - detail from a China panel. All images via Wikipedia. In 1602, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming dynasty had a big ...

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