Greece Archive
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AncientPages.com - While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering events between 1200 and 760BC. This period
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The mystery surrounding the location of Alexander the Great's tomb continues, but scientists have made significant progress by identifying his family's burials at
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Roman prisons were an integral part of the ancient justice system, characterized by harsh conditions designed to extract confessions from inmates. These facilities
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers, led by a University of Michigan archaeologist, has made a significant discovery during excavations in the ancient Greek city
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists researching the Island of Kasos have made remarkable discoveries. In collaboration with the Ministry of Culture, the Hellenic National Research Foundation science
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Scripts, Paintings & Inscriptions
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - When analyzing 2,500-year-old medical texts, scientists were surprised to discover dementia was hardly mentioned at all. Everything indicates memory loss was more or
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Admired or hated, it is fair to say that no one was indifferent to Alexander the Great, who is today recognized as one
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - During archaeological excavations in Tenea, an ancient Greek town near Corinth, built by Trojan prisoners of war, scientists unearthed a wonderful treasure and intriguing
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Underwater archaeologists conducting surveys off the coast of Salamis have found an ancient Greek building and magnificent marble treasures. According to reports, it
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - This legend is devoted to Cadmus, who in Greek mythology was the legendary Phoenician hero and founder of Boeotian Thebe, husband of Harmony, and one
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ancient city of Kythnos on the Aegean Sea island has long fascinated archaeologists. The site, first inhabited about 10,000 years ago, has some
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The five new archaeological sites have been discovered in the Megalopolis lignite mine in southern Greece contain valuable faunal and cultural remains belonging
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have led the analysis of bracelets found in the tomb of Queen Hetepheres I – the largest and most famous collection of
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Multiple burials of possible women warriors have been unearthed in sites associated with the Scythians, Sauromatians (a tribe nation ruled by women), and Sarmatians.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Maritime history dates back thousands of years, och there is no doubt many ancient civilizations had excellent knowledge of navigation and sailing. Once
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A pair of nice sandals were discovered during excavation works at the Harbor of Eleutherios (Theodosius), one of the ports of ancient Constantinople, the
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - An inscription on the Temple of Delphi says: "Know thyself, and thou wilt know the universe and the gods." It is only one sentence,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The ancient city of Tenea has long been considered a mythical place. Built by Trojan war prisoners around 1100 B.C. somewhere in southern
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Artifacts
Conny Waters - AncientPages-com - The Geneva court has ruled 15 ancient objects will be returned to Greece from Switzerland. Criminal investigations reveal the ancient artifacts were illegally
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It is always splendid when ancient knowledge can be preserved for future generations. One of the greatest Greek philosophers was Aristotle of Stagira
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - With the help of new archaeogenetic data, scientists have obtained exciting insights into the social order of the Aegean Bronze Age. Life picture:
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient Greek historian Strabo referred to the presence of an important shrine located on the west coast of the Peloponnese some 2,000 years
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The beautiful Greek port city Thessaloniki was an important metropolis during the Roman period and the second largest and wealthiest city of the
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The 2,500-year-old Empuries (also Emporiae) site on the Costa Brava was built in 575 BC. It was a Greek and, later, a Roman colony
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Countless unearthed ancient statues prove that Greek civilization valued beauty and perfection. The astonishing achievements of ancient Greek artists are reflected in sculptures
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists from the University of Bristol have suggested that mysterious stone spheres found at various ancient settlements across the Aegean and Mediterranean could
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - New important findings have been revealed by Greek-Swiss excavations at the sanctuary of Amarysia Artemis, located two kilometers east of Amarynthos, nearby Eretria,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An excavation team consisting of students and scientists from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AuTH) has made a stunning discovery in Philippi, a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - One of the largest volcanic eruptions in the Holocene epoch—as measured by the volume of material ejected—occurred on the Greek island of Santorini,
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using new scientific tools, University of Cincinnati archaeologists discovered that an ancient Greek leader known today as the Griffin Warrior likely grew up
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A modern scientific analysis of ancient stone tools is challenging long-held beliefs about what caused radical change on the island of Crete, where
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Although this 1700 years old luxury villa was excavated and examined both in 1856 and in the 1990s, it still has secrets to
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - While exploring the historic Roman-era shipwreck off the islet of Antikythera marine archeologists discovered several ancient artifacts recovered from the seafloor. The most
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AncientPages.com - Ancient historians loved to write about warfare and famous battles. While these millennia-old stories still feed modern imaginations – Homer’s “Iliad” provides the plot for the
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - In the second episode of the TV show Lego Masters, contestants were asked to build a castle — then watch it be destroyed by a bowling ball.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Prehistoric Cycladic figurines carved in marble are very ancient artifacts that appeared in the Cycladic society, many centuries before the arising of the famous Minoan Civilization.
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Mycenaean culture in Bronze Age Greece is not only famous for works of art such as the "Gold Mask of Agamemnon", but
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Being a wine taster may sound like an enjoyable profession to many but as we all know drinking too much can give you
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New research into a little-known text written in ancient Greek shows that "stressed poetry," the ancestor of all modern poetry and song, was
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The Thraco-Phrygian deity, known as Sabazius, has been frequently identified with Dionysus. He had a small yet persistent presence in the Roman Empire and
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Artifacts
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Art is universal and timeless, and so is our appreciation of it if it is unique and beautiful, like this magnificent bronze sculpture.
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A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Meteora, (means in Greek:" raised from the ground, hanging") and the ancient monasteries built atop the Meteora massif represent a magnificent place that does
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