Greek Reporter1d
Menander, the Ancient Greek King of India
Long ago in ancient India reigned a Greek king named Menander I Soter, a great conqueror and benefactor of Buddhism ...
Greek Reporter3d
Explore the Ancient Greek World Through a Revolutionary Digital Map
A digital map of ancient Greece and the known ancient world as traveled by ancient geographers has been created by ...
In Ancient Greece and Rome, who were the harpies, and why did they stink so much?
Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...
Ancient Greeks and Romans perfumed their statues, study says
The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of ...
Public Radio Tulsa13d
Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says
Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...
Medical Xpress18d
Figs, meat—and not too much sex: A good diet in ancient times was more than what you ate
Doctors in ancient Greece and Rome knew this too—in fact ... For instance, in the sixth book of the Epidemics, a medical text written in the late fifth century BC, the author calls for ...
Smithsonian Magazine18d
Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were Not Only Beautiful, but Also Smelled Nice, Too
In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful ... While reading ancient Greco-Roman texts, Brøns noticed a handful of references to sweet-smelling statues.
Live Science20d
'Not enough survives to read the king's name': Tomb discovered of unknown ancient Egyptian pharaoh
The tomb was found within an ancient Egyptian necropolis in Abydos ... The ostraca were written in Greek and Demotic, an Egyptian script. Between the seventh and 14th centuries A.D., the workshop ...
Catholic News Agency4d
The Apocrypha?
The OT of the most ancient surviving Christian Bible manuscripts - Codex Vaticanus (4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (4th century) and Codex Alexandrinus (5th century) - are Greek Septuagint text.
Archaeology18d
On the Origin of the Pork Taboo
Yet despite a wealth of data and new techniques including ancient DNA analysis ... An image from a fifth-century b.c. red-figure Greek cup shows the sacrifice of a pig. Price points out, however ...