For personal and ritual use, it was typically held in a vessel like this: the lekythos. So, Greece has its geography to thank for its earthquakes, its seaborne trade and the pirates that come with it, ...

A study in volume 117 of the Israel Antiquities Authority journal ‘Atiqot presents the most detailed account to date of miniature black juglets (MBJs) recovered from two Iron Age II tombs in the ...

Multispectral Imaging Photos are taken of an object utilizing different aspects of light, or wavelengths. For example, ultraviolet radiation (UV) causes certain materials to glow, or fluoresce, ...

Aristophanes, the great comic dramatist of Athens, wrote the Lysistrata for performance in February 411 BC, probably at the Lenaia. The play was written against the backdrop of the final years of the ...