Gazans can in many ways be thought of as a separate ethnicity from West Bank Palestinians. This is because Gazans have ...

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In the third part of its series classical cultures, the Getty Museum looks at Thrace, a territory of tribes that sat between ...

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At the height of its prestige, Athens was the dominant maritime power in the Aegean, enjoying hegemony at sea.

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For Greece, Britain, Europe ... 11), open warfare had raged in the ancient capital. Because the battle lines were everywhere, all Athens was a no man’s land in which few unarmed civilians ...