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Look beyond the famous ruins in Athens and Olympia to discover five lesser-known temples and sanctuaries where ancient Greek goddesses were honored, worshiped, and feared.
King Alyattes is credited with creating the Lydian Lion coin around 600 BCE, which changed how trade was undertaken.
Beginning around 12,000 years ago, the Neolithic Revolution began to change the way human beings lived their lives.
The Hellenistic world was characterized by constant conflict between Alexander’s successors and their heirs. These five battles shaped the Hellenistic World.
Homer’s Iliad is about the destructive pursuit of honor set against the backdrop of the Trojan War, but how does the poem depict morality?
The Etruscan alphabet looks more like the Greek alphabet than that used by the Latin neighbors in Italy. What does it reveal about the origins of the Etruscans?
Han Chinese armies marched across Central Asia to besiege the remnants of a Greek kingdom. The reason? The fabled Heavenly Horses of Ferghana.
The Theben Cycle of epic poems explains much of the mythical history of Thebes. What do we know about this lost literature?
