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A UC archaeologist uses advanced technology to study the' Ladies of Anavlochos,' ancient Greek figurines from Crete, dating ...
Bulgari (or Bvlgari) as it is internationally recognized, is reconnecting with its origins in Epirus, Greece at the small ...
The Temple of Hera, home to the predecessor of the Olympic Games, is one of the oldest religious sanctuaries in Greece.
Lead Contamination in Ancient Greece Points to Societal Change Jan. 30, 2025 — Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans ...
But the ancient Greeks beat all of these individuals to the punch by more than 2,000 years. As Adrienne Mayor, a classicist at Stanford University, argues in her 2018 book Gods and Robots ...
When, at a slightly older age, I began to study death and the ancient world what struck me ... took care of the dead, washing and clothing the corpse in a shroud and preparing it for viewing ...
The remains of a temple or shrine that was located above Tomb I, on top of a tumulus in Greece. . | Credit: ai-ivanov/Shutterstock An ancient tomb in Greece does not hold the remains of Philip II ...
For many years, scientists simply mapped these "gardens" to calculate the yield of the ancient islanders' crops ... and to the west were Greece and Lydia. The Phrygians were able to take advantage ...
“It’s simultaneously worship and public Christianity.” The ancient Greek hymn is by far the oldest surviving piece of Christian music—it predates the next notated work by six centurie ...
As we prepare for season three of "And Just Like That...," It girls are paying homage to the show’s star, Carrie Bradshaw.
The Olympic Games immediately spring to mind when people think about sport in ancient Greece. This is easy to understand because these Games are what has inspired our modern Olympics. The ancient ...
If you walked down a city street in ancient Greek and Roman times, it's likely you'd come across children or even adults playing a ball game. The Roman playwright Plautus (3rd/2nd century BC ...