According to the same writer, the earliest of the Doric columns were merely substitutes for wooden tree trunks that had served the same purpose. It is probable that the fluted column may have ...

Successively colonised by the Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans, Sicily is packed with ancient treasures to discover. From monumental temples to mosaics of unequalled precision, each of these sites is ...

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JD Vance was sworn in as vice president.(Julia Demaree Nikhinson-Pool via Imagn Images) Usha Vance held the Holy Bible.(Chip Somodevilla/Pool via AP) The inauguration's guest list included foreign ...