Sightseeing skills for experiencing Europe's ancient world
Climbing the Acropolis, communing with the druids at Stonehenge, or marvelling at the sprawling remains of Pompeii — ...
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Ancient Temples That Are Still in Use Today
Some of the oldest ancient temples continue to fulfil their original purpose after thousands of years, continuing their ...
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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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine5d
Discover the 14,000 Ancient Roman Artifacts Just Donated to the London Museum
Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip ...
Smithsonian Magazine5d
Flannery O’Connor Wanted to Shake Her Readers Awake. Her Family Wanted Her to Write the Next ‘Gone With the Wind’
This year marks the writer's 100th birthday. Through fiction anchored in her Southern background and Catholic faith, O'Connor ...
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Nyx, the Ancient Greek Goddess of the Night
Nyx is the is the Ancient Greek goddess of the night.  Unlike her sister, Eos, the goddess of the Dawn, Nyx is a mysterious ...
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The Curious Case of the Roman God Janus: Origins, Epithets, History
Ancient Rome unfairly has a reputation for having stolen or copied their mythology and religious traditions from the Greeks ...
Ancient Greek and Roman Statues Were More Than Eye Candy—They Were Also Perfumed
Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory ...
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Thousands of Roman artefacts found during building work given to London Museum
The finds were uncovered at the site of a 3rd century AD temple to the Roman god Mithras, in the modern-day City of London. Michael R Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies, ...
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When Did the World Become Christian?
Jesus believed in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the “Day of the Lord,” but that day never arrived, and ...
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Could 1,600-year-old Galilee synagogue rewrite history of Jewish life under the Romans?
New radiocarbon dating at grand Huqoq sanctuary near Tiberias puts its construction after the empire embraced Christianity, ...