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For one homesteader on Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula, collecting ancient Greek and Roman coins is about holding a piece of history in his hands.Steve McBride has a homestead with his wife Lisa in ...
Divers have spent decades exploring Greece's ancient Antikythera wreck. The latest expedition found relics and retrieved pieces of the ship.
For thousands of years sirens have lured sailors, haunted coastlines—and shapeshifted through myth and media. Here's how they evolved to the seductive mermaids of our modern imagination.
Ancient Greece is traditionally remembered for its philosophy, mythology, and great buildings—but there's a lesser-known side that hardly finds its way into textbooks. Under the neat image is a ...
Envision Greece's past at the Ancient Agora is ranked #7 out of 18 things to do in Athens. See pictures and our review of Envision Greece's past at the Ancient Agora.
One night in 373 BCE, the earth beneath the Greek city of Helike groaned and cracked. As homes crumbled and temples collapsed, a tsunami wave surged in from the Gulf of Corinth, swallowing the ...
Can Evia’s mineral-rich waters, where the ancient Greeks once bathed, be a cure for exhaustion? Heidi Fuller-Love investigates ...
For 14 years the Greek archaeologist had been scouring Shallalat Gardens, a public park in the heart of Alexandria, Egypt, for traces of Alexander the Great, the ancient conqueror-turned-pharaoh ...
Her latest piece of fiction is a departure for her. “Ecstasy” is a work of horror-she based it on an ancient Greek play, “The Bacchae” by Euripides.
Greek Prostitutes in the Ancient Mediterranean, 800 BCE-200 CE. Madison, WI. Gschnitzer, Fritz 1976. Studien zur griechischen Terminologie der Sklaverei, vol. 2: Untersuchungen zur älteren, ...
Concern with accountability is hardly novel; indeed, the ancient Greeks were obsessed with keeping their officials legally accountable for their actions in office. Scholars have studied the complex ...
Jerusalem Post / Archaeology Ancient Greek shipwreck dating back to 6th century BC discovered off Sicily coast Prof. Massimo Capulli said they carefully uncovered rare parts of the ship, including ...