Dec 12 Blog
By: Nathan Steinmeyer
During salvage excavations in central Greece, archaeologists discovered a cemetery dating to the Archaic and Classical periods (c. 800–323 BCE). It was what they discovered […]
Dec 3 Blog
For some, the first thing the name “Troy” brings to mind is the 2004 Brad Pitt film, if not the ancient Homeric epic, the Iliad, […]
Nov 16 Blog
By: Megan Sauter
Some may be surprised that a passage in the Bible has a connection to Python from Greek mythology.
Jul 11 Blog
While exploring the famous first-century BCE Antikythera shipwreck off the southern coast of Greece, divers made some remarkable new discoveries. Among them was a previously […]
Jul 4 Blog
Etched into a stone on a hillside some 12 miles from Athens is a graffito that may help scholars identify a 2,500-year-old Athenian temple. Although […]
Jun 25 Blog
By: Mark Wilson
Visitors to the archaeologically rich city of Thessaloniki, Greece, have a new archaeological treat in store for them. With the opening of the city’s Metro […]
May 17 Blog
Although scholars have long suspected that Plato, one of the most famous philosophers of antiquity, was buried within the grounds of the school he helped […]
Oct 20 Blog
Despite the long-held perception that ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were undecorated pure white marble, decades of investigation have shown that they were often brightly […]
Apr 14 Blog
The Parthenon Marbles are at the center of one of the most intriguing archaeological and legal debates of the past century. While Greece and England […]
Jan 25 Blog
By: Valerie Abrahamsen
The Via Egnatia, which ran from Constantinople in the east to Dyrrachium, Albania, in the west, was one portion of the more than 50,000 miles […]
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