Jars holding the 2,900-year-old cremated remains of Phoenicians have been unearthed at Tyre, in southern Lebanon. “The big jars are like individual tombs. The smaller jars are left empty, but symbolically represent that a soul is stored in them,” said archaeologist Ali Badawi. Can the damage done to ancient Babylon be repaired? Looters, Saddam Hussein’s […]
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