As the teaching of ancient history and classical languages falls off a cliff in our failing educational systems, Americans will rapidly lose the connection to Graeco-Roman antiquity which so deeply ...

Chemical analysis shows a Roman flask held compound medicine, offering first proof of roman flask medical feces described in ...

Apollo Art Auctions presents an outstanding assemblage of over 500 lots of ancient art and antiquities, featuring one of the ...

Iron Age cargoes from Dor reveal how ancient Mediterranean trade evolved alongside shifting empires and political power. New ...

What did ancient Greeks wear in the winter? A natural question as all statues of Greeks in antiquity depict them dressed in ...

Color perception is relative, optically and culturally. Take, for instance, the shade of Homer’s wine-dark sea: It depends on who is tossing about upon it, where, and when. Chroma: Ancient Sculpture ...

The project, launched by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), aims to trace the origin of thousands of ceramic vessels ...

An ancient Christian monastic complex was recently discovered in Egypt's Sohag Governorate. The finds reveal the details of ...

Thanks to Hollywood, dinosaurs are very much back in style. The success of the "Jurassic Park" films has created much interest and curiosity in the prehistoric world of these massive creatures. The ...

Includes pictures *Profiles Palmyra's origins, its relationship with Rome, its culture, and more *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "At the ...

I vowed to see the Parthenon on this, my fourth visit to Athens, and my friend Cathy and I arrived a few days before our cruise and booked a tour of the Acropolis, on one of the highest hills of the ...

The suspects caused severe damage to the site, which is located in a protected antiquities area. A gang of four antiquities ...