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See the Stunning Frescoes of a Mysterious Dionysian Cult Discovered in Ancient Pompeii
Created more than a century before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., the wall paintings provide rare insights into ...
Met Museum Returning Ancient Bronze Thought Stolen from Greek Museum
The head of a griffin from 7th century B.C. is believed to have been taken from a museum in Olympia in the 1930s and later ...
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Melampus: The Ancient Greek Shaman Who Understood the Language of Animals
Melampus, a legendary Greek iatromantis, was a shaman, healer and seer famed for his prophetic gifts and ability to cure ...
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Did the Lelantine War in Ancient Greece Really Happen?
The Lelantine War may have been one of the only wars in ancient Greece to involve multiple cities, but did it really happen?
Never-before-seen series of ancient paintings dug up in Pompeii provide clues on rituals tied to Greek god
The extraordinary images that emerged from ash show Dionysian followers dancing and hunting, which are akin to frescoes of the nearby Villa of the Mysteries that were found 100 years ago.
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Metropolitan Museum repatriates ancient bronze griffin head that was stolen from Greek institution
Per the terms of the Met’s agreement with the Greek government, the cast-bronze antiquity will return to New York next year ...
‘Exceptional’ Pompeii frescos of Greek booze god & mystery rituals from Jesus’s time unearthed from ancient volcanic ash
EXCEPTIONAL” frescos of the Greek god of wine that reveal mystery cult rituals have been unearthed from ancient volcanic ash ...
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Ancient Greek Snake Altar Made To Appease The Gods Of The Dead Found In Türkiye
An ancient Greek snake altar made to appease the gods of the underworld was just unearthed in southern Turkey. Though the ...
Ancient Greek vase depicting Athena fighting a giant returns to Greece
An ancient Attic black-figure lekythos was repatriated to Greece in a ceremony at the Greek Embassy in Washington, D.C., ...
Met Museum returning ancient bronze thought stole from Greek museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a griffin, a mythological creature, after ...
Ancient Greek vessel returned home from U.S. museum
An ancient Greek artifact has been returned to its homeland following a repatriation ceremony at the Greek embassy in Washington, local media reported on Sunday.
The ancient origins of ‘manifesting’—and why it’s making a comeback
Before vision boards and TikTok affirmations, ancient cultures also believed that the power of thought could reshape their ...