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Dionysus, a god of resurrection in the same vein as Jesus and the thirteenth of the twelve gods of Olympus. Source: Carole Raddato / CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Gods of Greece, the Autocrats of the Ancient World (Part Four)

We’re almost at the end of the list of the twelve Olympian gods of ancient Greece. We’ve covered almost all...

Apollo, prettiest of the gods of Greece, hanging out with Hyacinthus and Ciparis. Source: Alexander Ivanov / Public Domain.

The Gods of Greece, the Autocrats of the Ancient World (Part Three)

There were twelve “core” gods of the ancient Greek pantheon. In the first of these articles we looked at the...

Although the empires may have survived, much of the old world of the Bronze Age was lost in the Collapse. Source: John William Waterhouse / Public Domain.

The Bronze Age Collapse: A Sudden, Violent Plunge into Darkness (Part Three)

The Bronze Age Collapse was, definitively, the end of the Bronze Age. By the time the ancient civilizations had picked...

My statue has no nose! How does he smell? Terrible! Source: José Luis Filpo Cabana / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Artifacts & Treasures

The Smell of the Greco Romans: Statues were Scented, New Study Finds

For those of you who watched the recent sequel to Gladiator, imaginatively named Gladiator II, firstly you have our sympathies....

The Bronze Age Collapse: A Sudden, Violent Plunge into Darkness (Part Two)

The main problem in understanding the Bronze Age Collapse is that we don’t really know what happened. This may look...

Pytheas was not the first to hear of the frozen north, but he may well have been the first Greek to see it for himself. Source: Exekias / Public Domain.

Historical Events

The Voyage of Pytheas, the Arctic Explorer of Ancient Greece

Pytheas is not a familiar name, even to those familiar with the ancient world. But in this man we see...

Turns out we may know about the Trojan War from the Hittites, and the mysterious people to the west they called the Ahhiyawans. Source: Unknown Author / Public Domain.

Ancient Civilizations

The Ahhiyawa and Wilusa: Did the Hittites Know of the Trojan War?

Homer’s Iliad is one of the oldest stories which has survived. Coming out of the Greek Dark Age and describing...

The golden larnax of Tomb II at Vergina, wherein the remains of a sacred purple tunic belonging to Alexander the Great are believed to have been found. Source: Digitalphilologist / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Archaeology & Discoveries

Tunic in Royal Vergina Tomb may have Belonged to Alexander the Great

Few individuals have changed the world, and fewer still manage to do so, as Alexander the Great did, before the...

The Dreros Stones could be the key to reading Linear A, the ancient language of the Minoans. Source: Émile Gilliéron / Public Domain.

Artifacts & Treasures

The Dreros Stones, and an Ancient Language Lost to the Nazis

Unpicking our ancient past is a nigh-impossible challenge. Piecing together who we are and where we came from has been...

Mycenaean warriors depicted on a vase. Something sudden happened to the Bronze Age palaces which caused them to be abandoned as society collapsed, and the social order which replaced them looked decidedly different. Source: Sharon Mollerus / CC BY 2.0.

The Mycenaean Collapse: A Massacre in the Palaces?

Bronze Age Greece is seen as a golden age. This is Homer’s Greece, the Greece of the Iliad and the...

The excavated Greek ruins including the large L-shaped rampart wall. Some of the finds indicate a site dating back to the golden age of Bronze Age Greece. Source: Croatian Ministry of Culture and Media.

Archaeology & Discoveries

Ancient Greek Ruins in Croatia Date back to the Trojan War

Archaeologists in the village of Stobreč in Croatia have unearthed an ancient Greek settlement. What makes this find especially exciting...

Pythagoras with visual representations of some of his numerology theories. His stranger ideas have been omitted. Source: J Augustus Knapp / Public Domain.

Historical Events

The Wild Life and the Ridiculous Death of Pythagoras

You all know about Pythagoras, the triangle guy? His brilliant theorem to calculate the lengths of the sides of a...

Greece

The Gods of Greece, the Autocrats of the Ancient World (Part Four)

The Gods of Greece, the Autocrats of the Ancient World (Part Three)

The Bronze Age Collapse: A Sudden, Violent Plunge into Darkness (Part Three)

The Smell of the Greco Romans: Statues were Scented, New Study Finds

The Bronze Age Collapse: A Sudden, Violent Plunge into Darkness (Part Two)

The Voyage of Pytheas, the Arctic Explorer of Ancient Greece

The Ahhiyawa and Wilusa: Did the Hittites Know of the Trojan War?

Tunic in Royal Vergina Tomb may have Belonged to Alexander the Great

The Dreros Stones, and an Ancient Language Lost to the Nazis

The Mycenaean Collapse: A Massacre in the Palaces?

Ancient Greek Ruins in Croatia Date back to the Trojan War

The Wild Life and the Ridiculous Death of Pythagoras

Ancient Gold Brooch and Jade Stone Unearthed at Troy

7-Year-Old Maya Child Wore Jade “Tooth Gem” in Ancient Ritual Practice

Museum Employee Steals 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Pharaoh’s Bracelet, Sells for $4,000

Spanish Researchers Create First Complete 3D Map of Historic La Pileta Cave Using Advanced LiDAR

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