The ancient universities of India were intellectual powerhouses that attracted scholars from distant lands interested in studying mathematics and astronomy as well as philosophy and medicine.

A new open access volume, Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient Egypt, authored by Alice Stevenson (UCL Institute of Archaeology), is now available. Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient ...

The auction house selling the medal, RR Auction, said that the 1904 Olympics were significant for multiple reasons. First, it was the first Olympic events that awarded gold, silver, and bronze ...

The "Classical and Glory-Ancient Greek and Roman Sculpture Art Exhibition" kicked off its first stop in China at the Shanxi Museum in Taiyuan, Jan 1, 2025. [Photo by Zhu Xingxin/chinadaily.com.cn ...

Credit: YouTube screenshot For the first time, visitors will have the one-of-a-kind opportunity to see up close ancient artifacts from the Griffin Warrior Tomb, discovered in the Peloponnese in 2015, ...

Simitis imposed financial measures to prepare for Greece’s entry into ... venue of the inaugural modern Olympics in 1896, but also to the birthplace of the ancient games in 776 B.C. But the ...

Compared to 2024’s wave of protests against overtourism across Europe, in Greece – famed for its ... will include everything from ancient amphoras and tableware, to marble statues and bronze ...

The goddess's body was not fully revealed in Greek art, however, until about 350 B.C., when a sensational cult statue ... innumerable images of the goddess in varying degrees of undress were created ...

This might sound familiar, too. It seems very little has changed from the days of the ancient Greek and Roman empires when it comes to finding time to unwind—and being on holidays, too.

Rock inscriptions in Greek were discovered on a mountain in Central Asia. Credit: CAAL website 9((CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) via Wikimedia Commons Ancient Greek inscriptions carved on a rock were recently found ...

As STEPHEN G MILLER (professor at Berkeley) points out in his Ancient ... uniquely Greek games gradually ruined into a form of universal entertainment, with professional, fulltime athletic Gilds ...

Take your students into the world of Greek and Roman myths—ancient stories about heroes, monsters, gods, and goddesses. Seven activities introduce students to these stories and their characters ...