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Andy Drake and James Wolsiffer share their journey of creating Axe Head Threads, a custom clothing brand for first responders with over 55,000 followers. Drake and Wolsiffer both work for the ...
The remains, dated between the 6th and 2nd centuries B.C.E., show that the Punic people were genetically closest to ancient populations from Sicily and Greece, with a significant and increasing ...
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“It’s simultaneously worship and public Christianity.” The ancient Greek hymn is by far the oldest surviving piece of Christian music—it predates the next notated work by six centurie ...
An ancient vase depicting the death of Talos ... Entities magically endowed with life by the gods are not a rarity in Greek myth. Consider, for example, Galatea, a statue of a woman sculpted ...
The lecture hall of an "impressive high school" from an ancient Greek settlement ... dedicated the structure to Greek gods. "Mention is made of a gymnasiarch, the head of the gymnasium, and ...
Tolkien was inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Atlantis. Credit: Віщун, / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 British author J. R. R. Tolkien is beloved worldwide as the father of the literary fantasy ...
Remarkably, the Greek Orthodox community proudly raised the yellow flag bearing the double-headed eagle, a symbol of Byzantine heritage. “Our Greek Orthodox Scouts fearlessly wave our Byzantine flag ...
One of them, a postgraduate student from the University of Winchester, found a Bronze Age axe head in their collection. The museum wrote on Facebook: "Under guidance from professionals ...
You might be surprised to learn that a figure from the distant 3rd century BC, a Greek ... ancient think-tank and the world’s archive rolled into one), Callimachus of Cyrene worked hard to make his ...
An entire ancient Egyptian settlement from the New Kingdom, also known as the Golden Age of Egypt, surfaced from beneath Greek ruins at ... he has the falcon head of Horus, another god of the ...
Thucydides fought in the Peloponnesian War on the Athenian side. His world was steeped in the sensibilities of Greek tragedy, and his historical narrative carries that imprint throughout.