May 17, 2023
“It is remarkable that Sparta had no walls when all the other cities did,” Elon Musk recently in response to a user’s image of a Spartan […]
May 17, 2023
Archaeologists discovered the remains of two people who were most likely victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD in the ancient city of Pompeii. […]
May 3, 2023
Greek myths have had a wide influence on the culture, art, and literature of Western civilization, and the events recounted in them are said to have […]
May 3, 2023
In a time and place that offered few career opportunities for women, the job of the priestess of Apollo at the Oracle of Delphi stands out. […]
April 27, 2023
A team of scientists has recently discovered an ancient necropolis in the heart of Paris, just a few meters away from a busy train station. The […]
April 21, 2023
Mermaids, folkloric creatures with the head and upper body of a woman and lower body of a fish, appear in many cultures across the world. Many […]
April 5, 2023
This is the first known photograph of the magnificent ancient Greek statue of Moschophoros, also known in English as “The Calf Bearer” when it was discovered […]
April 5, 2023
The ancient Celts were fierce warriors who lived in mainland Europe. But during the Renaissance, an idea took hold that they lived in the British Isles. […]
April 2, 2023
Trilobites, a group of extinct marine arthropods, had a hidden third eye — and sometimes even a fourth or fifth, new research suggests. Paleontologists knew that, […]