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Scholars Thought This Ancient Silver Goblet Told One Myth for 50 Years. Is It Actually Telling Another Story?
A new study asserts that the Bronze Age goblet may be one of the earliest known depictions of cosmology, featuring gods ...
Produced in collaboration with the UK’s Lion Television and inspired by the best-selling book by Greek writer Christos ...
Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...
Friday essay: from political bees to talking pigs – how ancient thinkers saw the human-animal divide
Julia Kindt received funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and is a member of the Sydney Environment Institute. What makes us human? What (if anything) sets us apart from all other ...
“The Secret Lives of Numbers,” by Kate Kitagawa and Timothy Revell, highlights overlooked contributions to the field by ancient thinkers, non-Westerners and women. By Alec Wilkinson Alec Wilkinson is ...
For the past half century, Egyptologists saw the rapid abandonment of Akhetaten as a sign of plague. Now that theory is being challenged.
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