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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 ...
Steve McBride collects ancient Greek and Roman coins from his homestead in Mobile, N.L. He says it can connect people today with those who lived thousands of years ago.
Violence at a jail has plummeted after inmates were given lessons in the ancient Greek philosophy of Stoicism. Inmates at HMP Wayland, Norfolk, were taught how to live virtuous, peaceful lives ...
Residents of a Greek aged care home in Melbourne's north-east once made bus trips to visit the Hellenic Museum, but now the museum has come to them.
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 ...
An unusual bronze statuette in the Walters' collection stands in an Egyptian pose and has Egyptian features in its dress, but is East Greek in its style. The unprovenanced work's tantalizing hints of ...
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.
Until recently, classical scholars had little idea of exactly how an ancient Greek tortoise-shell lyre or lyra was constructed. The present reconstruction is based on an objective and thorough ...
THE techniques of the production of the officially issued plated coins of ancient Greece have been discussed at length by Campbell1. In the samples examined, it was inferred that the plating had ...
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is based on Homer's ancient Greek epic of the same name. Matt Damon leads the cast as Odysseus, joined by Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Jon Bernthal, and Lupita Nyong'o.
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 ...