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Greek Statues Were Not Only Painted and Dressed But Also Perfumed, Study Reveals
Researchers uncover that ancient Greek statues were not just painted and dressed but also perfumed, adding a new dimension to ...
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Was the Delian League the NATO of the Ancient Greek World?
Scholars have identified interesting parallels between the military alliances of NATO and the ancient Athenian-led Delian League.
Animal skins, bells, ritual chaos: Ancient burnout remedy is still at the heart of Greece’s carnival
Feeling overwhelmed by everyday obligations or doom-scrolling? The ancient Greeks had a remedy for burnout still practiced ...
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Ancient Greeks and Romans Laced the Aegean with Lead
Lead pollution in and around the Aegean Sea dates back to the Bronze Age and shows a strong spike associated with Roman ...
Artnet News4d
The Largest Harbor in Ancient Greece Is Centuries Older Than We Thought
Lechaion, ancient Greece's largest seaport, was the heart of the region's commerce. A new study reveals it may be even older ...
We’ve told this story for 2,500 years: how Hadestown playfully brings alive an ancient Greek myth
Based on a myth first told in Greece over 2,500 years ago, Hadestown, now playing in Sydney, is a modern retelling of the ...
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AI Is Deciphering Ancient Inscriptions That Experts Have Struggled With for Centuries
ProtoSnap is just the latest in a growing list of AI breakthroughs reshaping how historians read the past. In 2023, a team of ...
Met Museum Returning Ancient Bronze Thought Stolen from Greek Museum
The head of a griffin from 7th century B.C. is believed to have been taken from a museum in Olympia in the 1930s and later ...
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Herculaneum scrolls breakthrough: Scientists digitally "unroll" 2,000-year-old scroll scorched by Mount Vesuvius
The few that could be opened were philosophical texts written in ancient Greek. But most of the scrolls were so badly damaged, they were considered illegible. More recently, researchers managed to ...
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Animal skins, bells, ritual chaos: Ancient burnout remedy is still at the heart of Greece's carnival
DISTOMO, Greece — Feeling overwhelmed by everyday obligations or doom-scrolling? The ancient Greeks had a remedy for burnout still practiced annually by their rural descendants. In the mountain ...