Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.
Could an ancient Athenian understand a Byzantine Greek speaker and realize they spoke different versions of the same language ...
The Antikythera mechanism has long been treated as a one-off marvel, a relic so far ahead of its time that some doubted ...
The ancient Antikythera Mechanism acts like an astronomical calculator, but its full purpose remains a mystery.
In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...
The Ancient Greeks supposedly partied hard thousands of years ago - but what were these get-togethers really like?
In 1697, William Congreve, a British playwright, wrote that: “Musick hath Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd, and, as ...
Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...
A German woman who stole the top of an ancient column in Olympia over half a century ago has returned it to Greece, the Greek culture ministry said Saturday. The capital of the column, made of ...
A collection of modern photographs of ancient sites and monuments assembled by the Getty Resarch Institute, concentrating on Greek and Roman architecture from the Greek Archaic through the late Roman ...