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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excavation of the ancient city of Juliopolis has uncovered evidence that it was a significant power-center for centuries. Located ...

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Excavation of the ancient city of Juliopolis has uncovered evidence that it was a significant power-center for centuries. Located in modern-day Turkey, the city is now mostly submerged beneath a dam ...

Imagine walking through a massive, thousand-year-old capital and being the only person there. In this journey, we head deep into the heart of the Mexican jungle to find Edzná, a sprawling Maya ...

A little over 2,000 years ago, in what is now western Turkey, a robber-king called Cleon renamed the city where he was born Juliopolis, in honor of his new friend, Gaius Julius Caesar (who was born as ...