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The history of Greece does not just offer us a glimpse of our institutions in their earliest forms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
A study led by the University of Oxford suggests the earliest animals may have existed hundreds of millions of years before the first unmistakable animal fossils appear.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
The walls of what is thought to be one of medieval England's earliest and largest leprosy hospitals have been uncovered in Lincoln by Time Team archaeologists.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
His efforts, which he published under the name Football Leaks, offered some of the earliest insights into City’s operations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The earliest of these found so far are small figures of mammoth ivory from a cave in southwestern Germany, made 30,000 years ago.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
