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...
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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...
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 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,...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
The Mycenaean Collapse: A Massacre in the Palaces?
Bronze Age Greece is seen as a golden age. This is Homer’s Greece, the Greece...
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...
The Wild Life and the Ridiculous Death of Pythagoras
You all know about Pythagoras, the triangle guy? His brilliant theorem to calculate the lengths...