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Roughly 14 miles from the ancient city of Syracuse in southeastern Sicily, more than 4,000 tombs were carefully cut into the walls of a limestone gorge. The tombs make up the Necropolis of Pantalica, ...

The famed “Gate to Hell” at the ruins of the ancient Greek city of Hierapolis in western Turkey was celebrated as the portal to the underworld in Greco-Roman mythology and tradition. Known also as ...

Archaeologists carrying out an ongoing survey in Turkey’s Tunceli province in Eastern Anatolia have discovered two open-air Urartian temples inside two fortresses at settlements that date back to the ...

Pamukkale’s iconic terraces are formed by travertine, a type of limestone deposited by mineral-rich hot springs flowing down the mountainside. Over thousands of years, calcium carbonate hardened into ...

On a cold, windy November day among the graves and tombs of long-gone souls, Annette Mullen is full of life about the future of Glasgow's Necropolis. "The memorial to firefighters who lost their lives ...

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