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Well, you can. It involves learning a little ancient Greek, and getting to know that society’s approach to time. As you do, ...
Scholars have found a 3,000-year-old Babylonian hymn praising the city, its citizens, and deity Marduk, with the help of A.I.
Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...
Homer tells us that ancient Greek hero Odysseus spent seven years on the island of Ogygia, a place that could be Ireland ...
Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...
It was just another bombing in a complicated corner of the Middle East, but this one was important — the Associated Press ...
There’s an argument rumbling about why our ancestors evolved language. And surprisingly, one of the possible explanations has ...
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1 of 6 | To tourists, it’s the ancient theater at the foot of the Acropolis. Artists revere it for the majestic stage where legends have performed. And for locals, it’s the touchstone of their summer ...
Greece, home to more oil-tanker capacity than any other nation, cautioned its ship owners to think again if they’re considering entering the Persian Gulf in the wake of US airstrikes.
This Greek cup, dating from around 510 B.C., depicts an Amazon warrior on a horse. Scholars suggest wording on the vase names the woman Worthy of Armor in ancient Circassian.
The first is ΟΔΥCCEOC, the Greek genitive (i.e. possessive or attributive) case of Odysseus which suggests a writer referring to the location as the hero’s palace or temple.