Friedrich Hölderlin was an important German Romantic lyric poet whose great work managed to bridge the Classical and Romantic ...

The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

Hesiod was an ancient Greek poet whose epic work Theogony elevated him to the status of Homer and is "a major source on Greek ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

However, the equally fascinating naturally occurring lithic items have been less extensively studied, usually only given a cursory mention in the literature. At Melka Kunture, Ethiopia ...

Ancient city The ruins of Megiddo are now in a national park about 18 miles (30 kilometers) southeast of Haifa. Megiddo was a strategically important city at a crossroads on trade and military ...

Soldiers from Ukraine’s 123rd Territorial Defence Brigade may have unearthed an elite Ancient Greek necropolis dating to the 6th–5th centuries BC while digging fortifications in southern Ukraine, ...

The Greek municipality of Tenea boasts a rich ancient history—and the archaeological artifacts to prove it. Finds in the region have long hinted at a once-thriving settlement, with the latest ...

The mummy of a first-century-B.C. individual found in Egypt was not pregnant and did not have cancer, according to a new CT study.

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