BYBLOS, Lebanon — The anguish in Lebanese archaeologist Nader Siklaoui’s voice is clear as he films Israeli missiles slamming down near ancient Roman columns he has spent much of his life ...
Work to lay natural gas pipelines near the foot of the Acropolis has uncovered an ancient marble statue of a young man buried almost upright in a brick-lined pit ...
He was a mathematician nearly two millennia out of time: “Archimedes was the earliest thinker to develop the apparatus of an infinite series with a finite limit,” noted Alex Bellos in his 2014 book ...