These works by Homer form the cornerstone of ancient Greek culture and provide DEEP insights into heroism, morality, and human nature. The Iliad narrates the ...

Ancient lead pollution in the Aegean Sea may have started 5,200 years ago — 1,200 years earlier than previously thought.

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece ...

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Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated ...

The most advanced way that we communicate, through the written word, is something that animals simply can’t do at all. This ...

The main defendants, Gadalias and Saulos, stood accused of corrupt dealings, including falsified documents and fictitious ...

“Forgery and tax fraud carried severe penalties under Roman law, including hard labor or even capital punishment,” Dolganov ...

The lentil-shaped objects were unearthed in Hadrianopolis, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey, that once hosted a Roman ...

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. This post-apocalyptic novel follows a nomadic caravan of theatrical performers ...

One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...

Have you ever wondered why ancient Greeks used a writing system that evolved without any spaces between words, without punctuation and utilized only capital letters? If not, all you have to do is see ...