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A mysterious event mentioned in the Bible was actually the oldest solar eclipse ever recorded, a new Cambridge study has found. The revelation may help to rewrite the dates of Egyptian pharaohs, including the famous Ramesses II.

Pupils of the third elementary school in Corinth watch Monday as a priest conducts the customary blessing ceremony marking the start of the new academic year. Similar ceremonies were held at more than 13,000 schools. According to unions, some 5,000 teaching spots remain vacant.

Once upon a time, the town of Melita was famous for its legendary fruit orchards. Even the name of Melita sounds delicious. This is the old name for Malatya, the unrivaled capital of apricots in Turkey, and the world in a way. The city produces 90 percent of all dried apricots exported from Turkey, which sums up to almost 80,000 tons worth $290.7 million.

The fabled Ark of the Covenant is a wooden and gold box that is believed to hold the two stone tablets called the Ten Commandments.

It was lost to history and has never been re-discovered, but archaeologists suspect that it could be at the ancient site of Kiriath-Jearim in West Jerusalem.

A documentary prepared jointly by TRT, the Diyarbakır Governor's Office and the Turkish Development Ministry has claimed that the ancient statues in the world's oldest-known temple were constructed by the Prophet Abraham's father, Terah, prompting anger from archaeologists who say the claim is erroneous and misleading.

Today is the third day of Eid al-Adha, the "Feast of the Sacrifice." It means that millions of Muslims around the world have taken the knife in their hands, or more commonly paid a butcher, to slaughter animals, most typically sheep, as a sacrifice to God.

A bid by a group of Jewish women to challenge tradition at Jerusalem's Western Wall with a blessing usually conducted by men was curtailed yesterday after a decision by Israel's attorney general.

The plan was the latest by the group, Women of the Wall, to push for equal prayer rights at the site, the holiest location where Jews are currently allowed to pray.

A swingers Christmas bash at the 2 Plus 2 club at Piraeus turned into Sodom and Gomorrah in the early hours of Saturday as more than 400 people engaged in group sex with special prizes that included Free Fucks.

Shame! Sodom and Gomorrah on Tsambika beach, Rhodes… again! (vid)

On Feb. 25, 1994, an ultra-Orthodox Jew named Baruch Goldstein entered the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, occupied Palestine, with a machine gun. Seconds later, he opened fire on the Muslim worshippers, killing 29 people and wounding more than 125. He himself was lynched to death by the survivors in the mosque, but only to turn into a martyr in the eyes of his comrades.