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“Triclinia” for Family Banquets and Libation Conduits Found in the Great Roman Necropolis of Narbo Martius with 1,430 Tombs
The archaeological excavation in the La Robine necropolis, near the ancient city of Narbo Martius (now Narbonne, France), has ...
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One of the Herculaneum Papyri Indicates the Exact Location of Plato’s Grave: in a Garden Next to the Museion, in the Academy
More than 1,000 words, accounting for 30% of the text, have emerged from the carbonized papyrus of Herculaneum, containing ...
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Khalsa, the Sikh warriors who had the duty to protect the innocent from any form of religious persecution
Globalization has allowed the Hindu festival of Holi to spread almost everywhere—at least where there is an Indian ...
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A Guided Tour of the Largest Handcrafted Model of Imperial Rome [Video]
“Il Plastico” is a model of ancient Rome created by Italian archaeologist and architect Italo Gismondi between 1933 and 1937, ...
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Soviet Experiments to Create a Man-Ape Hybrid that Inspired an Unfinished Opera by Shostakovich
In 1932, Dmitri Shostakovich, one of the most significant composers of the 20th century, started writing a satirical opera that he ultimately left unfinished. Its title, Orango, refers to the name of ...
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Iddin-Sin’s Letter, Written 4000 Years Ago, Is the Earliest Known Complaint from a Son to His Mother
We don’t know what Zinu, a woman living in the Mesopotamian city of Larsa (about 15 miles southeast of Uruk in present-day Iraq), thought when she received the letter from her son Iddin-Sin. The young ...
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Scientists Launch the New York Declaration Stating that Animals, Including Insects, can be “Sentient”
In the past decade, the field of animal cognition and behavior has seen remarkable progress, with a series of surprising discoveries that have challenged our understanding of the inner lives of other ...
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The sculpture of a snake-bodied deity, a hybrid from Roman-Germanic mythology, found at the Roman fort of Stuttgart
The newly found sculpture of the giant together with the stone of the four gods discovered in 1908. The latter is in the repository of the Württemberg State Museum. Both stones were part of a giant ...
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Giddan/Eddana, The Forgotten Twin City of Dura-Europos
Aerial view of the ruins of Anqa, by Aurel Stein. Credit: Aerial Photographic Archive for Archaeology in the Middle East (APAAME) / Flickr The ancient city of Dura-Europos in modern-day Syria is well ...
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The Remains of the Battle of Himera, One of the Greatest Archaeological Discoveries in Recent Decades
Himera, currently known as Termini Imerese on the north coast of Sicily, was a Greek city founded in 648 B.C. by colonists from Zancle (Messina). Its location, the westernmost of all Greek cities on ...
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When Lenin and Stalin Robbed the Bank of Tiflis in 1907
The first quarter of the 20th century was a golden age in the history of bank heists, perhaps not in quality but in quantity—if we consider the amount stolen in the first case and the frequency in the ...
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How the Republic of Venice was Born within the Byzantine Empire as a Defense Against the ‘Barbarians’
As it’s known, the Most Serene Republic of Venice, that mighty maritime state born in the 8th century (independent since the 9th) and lasting until the late 18th century, was governed by a series of ...