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Babylon Had No Religion Class, but Its Future Officials Still Had to Learn Nearly 2,000 Gods

28 September 2026 at 18:07
Some 2,500 years ago, Babylon trained the sons of its wealthiest families without a single weekly hour devoted to the gods. There was no textbook that worked as a Bible either. Religion was everywhere and in no particular subject, spread through sign lists, writing exercises and arithmetic drills. A study published in the journal Iraq […]

A 1,600-Year-Old Roman Mosaic Just Turned Up in a Buried Roman Town Beside Europe’s Only Undammed Major River

28 September 2026 at 13:01
In the small village of Qesarat, in southern Albania‘s Tepelenë district, an Italian-Albanian excavation team has just finished a summer season that turned up something unusual: six decorated floors from a Late Roman building, right at the edge of the Vjosa Wild River National Park. Declared in March 2023, the park protects the last stretch […]

El centro de la Vía Láctea huele a ron y sabe a frambuesa, pero también hay olores menos agradables en el espacio

En abril de 2009, varios periódicos de medio mundo publicaron a la vez un titular que parecía sacado de un cóctel, según el cual el centro de la galaxia sabe a frambuesa y huele a ron. La frase salió del Guardian, que la construyó a partir de un comunicado del Instituto Max Planck de Radioastronomía, […]

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