The ancient Greeks realized a sad fact about bullies like Trump
Sixteen years into the Peloponnesian War, the devastating conflict between the Athenian and Spartan empires during the fifth ...
Animal skins, bells, ritual chaos: Ancient burnout remedy is still at the heart of Greece’s carnival
Agrarian societies, historically reliant on favorable conditions in nature for their survival, created these rituals to ward ...
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Ancient Greek Crown of Pure Gold Found in Box Under Man’s Bed
A British pensioner found a 2,300 year old ancient Greek crown packed with crumpled old newspapers in an old cardboard box ...
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Did the Ancient Greeks Celebrate Carnival?
As Greece prepares to celebrate Carnival, many people ask if the Ancient Greeks also did the same. The answer is not as easy ...
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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 ...
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What Do We Know About Life In Ancient Greece?
Did the Ancient Greeks really invent the Olympics? What did they wear? How did they party? What did Ancient Greek music sound ...
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Half-human, half-beast: The wild ancient tradition that awakens a sleepy Greek village
The wild ancient tradition that awakens a sleepy Greek village In the Greek town of Distomo, revelers clad in sheepskin ...
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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 ...
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Met Museum Returning Ancient Bronze Thought Stolen from Greek Museum
The ancient Greeks often decorated their bronze cauldrons, used to honor the gods, with the head of a griffin, whose visage is that of an eagle but whose body is that of a lion. On its website ...
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The Largest Harbor in Ancient Greece Is Centuries Older Than We Thought
As far back as the 8th century B.C.E., the city of Corinth served as the beating heart of the Mediterranean’s commerce. Lechaion, its sea port, was at the very core of its success. A new study ...
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Oldest Known Evidence of Lead Pollution Found in Ancient Greece
They were found in a peat bog in northeastern Greece near the island of Thasos, an ancient hub for silver mining and metalwork. “Peat cores don’t receive any fluvial [river] input, so it’s ...