He has flown warplanes, shot at tigers, ridden bare-chested on horseback, and now Russia’s macho prime minister can add diving for ancient treasure to the list. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pulled on ...
The prime minister went diving at an ancient Greek Black Sea site in the latest populist stunt preceding next year's elections. State news reports said he descended just two metres and "luckily" ...
The voting instructions hung on the wall, printed in English and Spanish. “Ballot box” is Spanish urna — recognizably “urn.” Both English and Spanish get that word from Latin. And the Romans got the ...
The Ukrainian 126th Territorial Defense was digging trenches in the Black Sea port city when members unearthed a cache of 2,500-year-old amphorae, ancient ceramic vessels with narrow necks that were ...
WHEN A scuba-diving Vladimir Putin found two ancient Greek urns on the floor of the Black Sea this week, it seemed a startling discovery. In his latest spurt of televised heroics, the Russian prime ...
Russia’s hard-man Prime Minister Vladimir Putin pulled on a wetsuit on Wednesday and went scuba diving at the site of a Greek ruin in the latest populist stunt preceding next year’s elections.
The scientists used mass spectrometry to date the bitumen MIPT Russian archaeologists have discovered an ancient Greek urn full of dense bitumen in the Taman Peninsula on the Black Sea. A ...
Thieves who attempted to steal a priceless Greek urn containing the cremated remains of Sigmund Freud from its resting place in London failed to make off with the ashes but badly damaged the ...