Roman general Sulla stripped Thebes of half its territory in 86 BC. Aerial view of the castle of Argos, one of the oldest city-states in Ancient Greece. Credit ... the important architectural remains, ...

Join me on an exhilarating adventure as I tickle one of Africa's deadliest vipers next to ancient cave paintings! Watch as we get up close and personal with this venomous creature while exploring ...

To answer this question, it’s worth a dive back into ancient history ... the invention of ball games to different regions of Greece, saying the games were invented by the Sicyonians or Spartans.

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An exploration of some of the oldest temples in the world, shedding light on the lives of ancient civilizations and their ...

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Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons For centuries in China, men and women gathered to play a game called Cuju. Considered an ancient form of soccer, a pastime, but also a political tool, it ...

Instead, Punic people shared an ancestry profile resembling those of ancient inhabitants of Greece and Sicily. Over time, North African ancestry entered the mix — reflecting the rise of Carthage ...

A specialized publishing house from Rimini, which in many ways has inherited the artisanal knowledge of ancient scribes ... in 1100 during the war in Thebes, Greece, and never returned.

The group led by Dr. Alan Williams and Dr. Benjamin Roberts examined tin artefacts and ores—some of which were obtained from ancient shipwrecks along the coasts of southern France and Israel. With the ...

That image is dead wrong, according to modern scholars. Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color as well as form; the white marble statues we admire looked stunningly different in ...