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One of only three surviving Byzantine crowns, it depicts a man and two sisters who jointly ruled the empire in the 11th century.

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Believed to be more than 1,500 years old from the Byzantine Empire, the ruins were found in Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province, located on the route between the cities of Aleppo and Damascus.

The community became a touchpoint in the nearly 14-year Syrian civil war that ended with the fall of former President Bashar Assad ... addition to an ancient city,” al-Ismail said. The Byzantine ...

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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction Henry Gee. St. Martin’s, $29 (288p) ISBN 978-1-250-32558-7 ...