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The Daily Princetonian18h
Relationships, Resistance, and Resilience: Roberto Lugo’s Orange and Black Exhibition
Throughout the conversation, Lugo spoke about his resonance with the colors orange and black. They didn’t represent the ...
Greek Reporter6d
The Unsung City-States That Shaped the Ancient Greek World
While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...
All That's Interesting on MSN3d
2,400-Year-Old Shipwreck Believed To Be The World’s Oldest Was Just Discovered Intact At The Bottom Of The Black Sea
Evidence of a similar vessel appears on an ancient Greek vase featuring the infamous Homeric character, Odysseus, tied to its ...
A trove of artifacts recovered from the black market goes on display in Naples
Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the ...
Smithsonian Magazine8d
The King and the Conqueror
Sculptures are first-century Roman copies of Greek originals ... double chamber strewn with smashed pottery, silver vases, bronze vessels, armor and weapons, including a golden breastplate ...
Greek Reporter17d
Western Looting of Greek Antiquities During the War of Independence
The systematic looting of ancient Greek treasures during the Ottoman and revolutionary ... he did manage to gather and ship several other antiquities from the island—mostly statues, pottery, and ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN2d
Was Talos, the Bronze Automaton Who Guarded the Island of Crete in Greek Myth, an Early Example of Artificial Intelligence?
One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...
Archaeologists Dug Under an Ancient Greek City—and Found a 3,500-Year-Old Egyptian Settlement
On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...
Miami Herald14d
2,000-year-old Greek lecture hall discovered in Italy is first of its kind
The lecture hall was discovered during excavations at Agrigento, the site of the largest ancient Greek settlement in Sicily. Photo by Thomas Lappi and Monika Trümper, FU Berlin, Institute of ...