While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Southeastern Italy may be better known for its beaches and burrata, but it’s also layered with ancient Greek and Roman ...

The Persian empire pioneered women's rights. Other contemporary cultures made jokes about it and considered Persians unmanly.

(Repeated quakes are one of the main reasons ancient Rome now lies in ruins ... they depict two naked Greek warriors with rippling muscles and great beards. The Bronzes of Riace are particularly ...

for allegedly misreading Polybius’ Greek. (If you’re keeping score, de Galbert is a Col du Clapier man.) Hannibal (depicted in a 1722 French sculpture) won his troops’ devotion.

Researchers compared puncture marks on an 1,800-year-old skeleton in the UK to various animal bites, and concluded that the ...

Designed to turn agony into art, the Brazen Bull was more than a torture device - it was theater. Created in ancient Greece, ...

NAGAOKAKYO, Kyoto Prefecture--An 11-face Kannon Buddhist statue kept at Otokunidera temple ... is only the third known example in Japan of an ancient wooden deity having been carved during a ...

AFP becomes one of the main source for international news. We've got various news from around the world. I can say that AFP news content is diverse and credible, and they can fit with the ...

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