Fresh fish, one of the favorite dishes of the Greeks, platter with red figures, c. 350–325 BC, Louvre. Public Domain The father of gastronomy is regarded as Archestratus, an ancient Greek poet and ...

Ancient Greeks dressed appropriately during the winter. Credit: Painting by Albert Kretschmer and Dr. Carl Rohrbach (1882) Public Domain What did ancient Greeks wear in the winter? A natural question, ...

From Greek-is.com: “The education system in ancient Greece was regarded as a ... Boys learned Greco-Roman wrestling and seven of the 10 Olympic Decathlon events. (Pole vault was not feasible ...

The longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert, which sheds new light on a legal drama that unfolded in Israel nearly 2,000 years ago, has now been published for the first time. Over the ...

The findings suggest that lead pollution due to human activities began approximately 1,200 years earlier than previously thought, and that the expansion of the Roman Empire across the Aegean ...

Ancient history is the study of the Greek and Roman worlds over a period spanning from 2000 BC to around 600 AD and covers parts of Africa, Asia and Europe. You will learn about these ancient cultures ...

The following Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BCE) gave rise to some of ancient China’s most influential philosophers, such as Confucius, as well as early writings on Taoism. China has contributed four major ...

Although her persona was somewhat dark and her family tree included the likes of deceit, misery, and doom, respecting Nyx came naturally to the ancient Greeks. Nox, the Roman equivalent of Nyx, was a ...

The ancient Romans were masters of building and engineering, perhaps most famously represented by the aqueducts. And those still functional marvels rely on a unique construction material: pozzolanic ...

In other words, ancient Roman customers wanted sculptures that reflected the look of ancient Greek and Hellenistic Greek,” Manchester adds. Even in the first century C.E., when the statue took ...