This sea, with its comparatively mild waters, looked much as it would millions of years later, when ancient Greece and Rome established themselves on its edges, When the Greek poet Homer wrote of ...

Until now, evidence of abstract thought in this species, such as the cave paintings of Ardales (Málaga) or personal ornaments found at other European sites, had been a matter of controversy. However, ...

Four years ago, archaeologists from the Bavarian State Office for Monument Conservation (BLfD) discovered a child’s tomb at the Mattsies site in southern Germany. Inside was the body of a boy buried ...

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Statue of Ovid in Constanța, Romania. Credit: www.bdmundo.com, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0. If we took ancient Greece out of the equation, the Ovid we celebrate and admire today wouldn’t exist. Yes, Publius ...

An international workshop, co-organized by the University, has shed new light on the often-overlooked role of ancient Macedonia, Thrace, and Northern Greece in shaping modern medicine. The event, ...

The concept of nostalgia in ancient Greece was a significant cultural force ... Similarly, origin myths about the construction of cities like Thebes by Dionysus and the Macedonian dynasty by the ...

Argos is one of the oldest cities in Greece and has been continuously ... and the epic battles of The Seven Against Thebes and the Epigoni are often set against the backdrop of this ancient city.

The Banquet of Cleopatra' by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770). Ancient ideas about diet were grounded in archaic theories about how the body worked. Most Greek and Roman doctors believed that ...