Greece

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

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 […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

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 […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

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 […]

By: Megan Sauter

Some may be surprised that a passage in the Bible has a connection to Python from Greek mythology.

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

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 […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

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 […]

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 […]

By: Barbara A. Porter

On January 7, 2022, Martha Joukowsky died at the age of 85 at her home in Providence, Rhode Island, near the Brown University campus where […]

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

Our modern world is defined by global trade and commerce, but such globalized economies were known in antiquity as well. New finds by the University of […]