Greek City Times1d
The Rod of Asclepius: Unraveling the Ancient Greek Symbol of Healing
The Rod of Asclepius is a striking emblem: a simple staff with a lone snake coiled around it, universally acknowledged as a symbol of medicine and healing.
Greek Reporter1d
How Ancient Athens Was Sacked Four Times
Ancient Athens was sacked four times, starting with the Persian invasion in 480 BC and ending with the Visigoth destruction ...
Greek Reporter2d
Hesiod: The Ancient Greek Poet Who Described the Birth of the Cosmos
Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose epic work Theogony elevated him to the status of Homer and is "a major source on Greek ...
Greek City Times2d
Lost Walls and North Gate of Selinunte, Sicily’s Ancient Greek Polis, Rediscovered
A team of archaeologists has excavated portions of the long-lost walls and north gate of Selinunte, an influential Greek city in southwestern Sicily. The excavations offer fresh insights into the city ...
Byzantine marble imports to Phoenician villages traced to Turkey, Greece
A new archaeometric study has identified the origins of marble objects from the early Byzantine villages of Porphyreon and ...
IFLScience on MSN2d
Ancient Greek And Roman Statues Were Meant To Be Sniffed – And They Smelled Divine
Greco-Roman sculptors created artworks with more than just visual beauty in mind, and strove to indulge all of the senses in ...
Texas Public Radio3d
Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says
Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...