A Mycenaean death mask. Credit: Sharon Mollerus / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 Ancient Greek history is one of the most intensely studied periods of human history, and yet a multitude of mysteries ...

The Temple of Athena Polias in Priene, an ancient Greek city at the base of Mycale’s escarpment, the battleground where Greeks and Persians clashed in history. Credit: Flickr / Egisto Sani CC BY-NC-SA ...

Teos was an ancient Greek city on the coast of Ionia, known for its flourishing seaport and notable historical figures like the poet Anacreon and philosopher Protagoras. Today, its ruins are near the ...

The ancient city of Teos sits on the western coast ... One that stood out depicted two fighting cupids, figures of Eros, the Greek god of love, whose imagery is related to Dionysos, the Greek ...

As STEPHEN G MILLER (professor at Berkeley) points out in his Ancient ... uniquely Greek games gradually ruined into a form of universal entertainment, with professional, fulltime athletic Gilds ...

Mar. 18, 2025 — An analysis of a 30,000-year-old fossil vulture from Central Italy has revealed for the first time that volcanic rock can preserve microscopic details in feathers -- the first ...

Olympics - 144th IOC Session - Opening Ceremony - International Olympic Academy, Ancient Olympia, Greece - March 18, 2025 Dance performers are seen during the opening ceremony REUTERS/Louisa ...

MIRANDA KRESTOVNIKOFF: According to ancient Egyptian myths ... This video is relevant for teaching KS2 History in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and second level in Scotland.

It’s one of hundreds of sites that remain long after the Romans left Britain, and just part of the legacy of Ancient Rome. Now Bath was named after the Romans left. But there are plenty of towns ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee kicked of its session in Olympia, site of the ancient Games, on Tuesday that will culminate with the election of a new president ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...