While many people are fixated on the future, there’s still plenty that we don’t know about the past. After all, our planet ...
The ancient Egyptians built temples that lasted thousands of years, and one of them happens to be in San Jose. Well, ...
Sending shockwaves through the archaeological world, Roman diver Stefano Mariottini was snorkelling about 8 meters deep when he saw a hand sticking out from the sandy bottom. Thinking he had found ...
An independent researcher claimed on Wednesday that a marble bust of Christ in a Roman church is by Michelangelo, the latest ...
German archaeologists have discovered new insights into Bavaria's Roman past from an ancient buried temple where Roman ...
The Monastery of Panagia Yiatrissa (“Mary the Healer”) in Kastania, on the slopes of Taygetus, is traditionally believed to stand on the ruins of an ancient temple dedicated to Athena. In villages ...
Ancient Greek priestesses may have used hallucinogenic ergot during the Eleusinian Mysteries, rituals carried out by the cult ...
A newly analyzed Greek inscription indicates that the Great Mosque of Homs likely stands on the site of the Roman Temple of the Sun, revealing a layered history of pagan, Christian, and Islamic ...
The 20th-century art historian Kenneth Clark made a distinction between the “naked,” meaning unclothed and ashamed, and the “nude,” meaning the body in its most beautiful form. Most people today use ...
Ancient followers of the Eleusinian Mysteries may have used a highly toxic fungus to create psychedelic hallucinations during ...
Series headliner is followed by 4 additional days of antiquities and ancient art plus a separate March 10-11 auction of ...
The ancient Greeks famously defined man as a “social animal.” It was a profound observation, yet incomplete. Man is not merely a social being; he is also ...