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Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...
This is the second installment of Edmonds resident Nathaniel Brown’s recent travels to Greece. You can read part 1 here. Patra My driver to Patra had never been in ...
Baby names inspired by Greek history and mythology are gaining popularity in the US. From Athena to Zeus, there is a name for ...
A statue Hydna and Scyllis was erected ... Why is it so difficult to find documentation of life in ancient Greece written by women? Why were representations of powerful female goddesses such as Athena ...
Rhodes, the largest island of the Dodecanese archipelago in Greece, possesses a history spanning millennia. While currently a major Mediterranean tourist favourite, Rhodes is uniquely distinguished as ...
After 18 months of uncertainty, the Cleveland Museum of Art is sending a statue worth $20 million back to Turkey. The ancient Greek or Roman sculpture, previously thought to depict emperor Marcus ...
Weddell and his fellow British travelers would have referred to the statue’s subject as Minerva, the Roman goddess, rather than Athena, “because they learned Latin in school, not ancient Greek ...
An ancient marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found dumped near a cluster of garbage bins in Greece, kicking off a police investigation into potential illegal ...
An ancient Roman statue of the Greek goddess Athena, hidden from public view for nearly 300 years, is resurfacing in Chicago. The 1st-century C.E. sculpture has been acquired by the Halsted A&A ...
An ancient Roman statue of Athena, unseen for almost 300 years, is resurfacing in Chicago. The 1st-century C.E. sculpture of the Greek goddess was acquired by Halsted A&A Foundation in 2023, as ...
Some 180 statues and figurines dating from prehistory to the middle ages represent women in many guises, from goddesses, religious icons, mothers, entrepreneurs, and sex workers, all bonded by ...
The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman statue of the ancient Greek goddess Athena. The sculpture, which has remained out of public view for centuries, will be on display ...