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  The statue of Nero at the Isthmus of Corinth. Video screenshot/YouTube , Updrones The forgotten statue of Nero  at the Isthmus of Corinth is a relic of the time the Roman emperor granted freedom to a part of ancient Greece. It is also a testament to the man who ordered that the Corinth Canal be built. This enormous project allows ships to circumnavigate the Peloponnese on their way to the Ionian Sea and vice versa. However, there are no historical records of who the actual creator was or when the monument of Nero on the rock was sculpted. The Isthmus of Corinth  has been known since ancient times as the dividing line between the Peloponnese and mainland Greece. A manmade waterway there would directly connect the Aegean Sea to the Ionian. In the 1st century AD, geographer Strabo pointed out a stele on the Isthmus of Corinth, bearing two inscriptions. One pointed East towards Megara of Attica. It said: “That is not Peloponnese, but Ionia.” The othe...

  Subterranean complex at Khirbet al-Murak in the Judean Hills Credit: Shahar Cohen New finds show that the rock-cut shelters, once linked to the Bar Kochba Revolt, originated earlier as a Jewish strategy to resist all foreign encroachment . Beneath much of Israel, the Dunderground , is a mirrored world of ancient winding tunnels, steep cliffs and vast chambers carved into the rock. Archaeologists have long known that most Jewish settlements in Roman-era Judea were equipped with elaborate labyrinths of hiding places that enabled inhabitants to hide from raids and, if necessary, for long periods underground. can live. These hiding places were initially often associated with the Kochba Revolt, a violent conflict in the second century AD that was the last major Jewish attempt to overthrow Roman rule. But recent discoveries have shown that the phenomenon began much earlier, possibly even before the arrival of the Romans, experts interviewed by Haaretz say. These hiding places have...

  The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of two early-universe quasars, shedding light on the relationship between black holes and their host galaxies. This breakthrough suggests that the mass ratio observed in more recent galaxies was already present less than a billion years after the Big Bang. JWST’s recent observations of two quasars from the universe’s infancy reveal crucial insights into the early relationship between black holes and their galaxies, echoing mass ratios seen in the more recent universe. New images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed, for the first time, starlight from two massive galaxies hosting actively growing black holes –quasars – seen less than a billion years after the Big Bang. The black holes  have masses close to a billion times that of the Sun, and the host galaxy masses are almost one hundred times larger, a ratio similar to what is found in the more recent universe. A powerful comb...

  Ancient Greec  a nd Ancient Egypt represented by Athena and Isis, respectively, is a late 19th-century symbolist Art Nouveau mural by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt symbolizing the relation of the two civilizations. Credit: Culturawiki and another author/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-CA 3.0 In the list of countries with the richest heritage, because Egypt’s recorded history began earlier, Egypt comes out on top with ancient Greece just behind it. Egyptian culture began to consolidate around 3150 BC during the Norman dynasty, while the ancient Greeks are descendants of the Mycenaeans , as confirmed by DNA studies. The Mycenaean civilization is known to have taken off around 1700 BC and lasted until 1100 BC, which is when the ancient Greek civilization blossomed. There were many similarities between ancient Egypt and Greece. Nonetheless, they were located in different geographical regions and thus did not have contact or interact with the same cultures and civilizations. There were, ...