That sword looks like a very good Greek xiphos. But then they have double-headed axes. They have all sorts ... weapons and not Persian ones? The ancient battle account actually does say that ...

Archaeologists have discovered multiple artifacts depicting ancient Greek deities in the ancient city of Finziade in Sicily.

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WASHINGTON — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...

even reflecting historical events such as the conquest of Greece by the Romans. The Aegean region gave rise to some of the earliest cultures of ancient Europe. The research team investigated when ...

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Little of the text has been deciphered so far. One of the few words that has been made out is the ancient Greek for "disgust". Peter Toth, a curator at the Bodleian Library, said: "We need better ...

It is missing its head and arms. The trafficking of antiquities from ancient Greece is not new as police continue to investigate other discoveries and road and construction workers across the ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday ... That same year, ancient bronze statues were found in a garbage dump in Tuscany, Italy. In 2013, a 1,800-year-old carved stone head possibly depicting a Roman ...

The discovery of ancient artifacts in surprising places is not uncommon in a country as rich in history and archaeology as Greece ... But the statue’s arms and head were lost to the past.

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Among the most ancient artifacts uncovered were hand axes estimated to be approximately 1.5 million years old. The discoveries were focused on the Al-Shabakah area, which was once a large lake ...