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Adrienne Mayor

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Sound weaponised – Ancient Greece to heavy metal

As if the tumultuous din of battle is not horrendous enough, over the ages humans have discovered plenty of ways to exploit sound in warfare. I found a variety of …

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Colossal fossils of Greece

In 1838, when the German King Otto ruled Greece, a Bavarian soldier discovered a weathered skull in a ravine near Pikermi, now a suburb of Athens. The skull looked human, …

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