Courtesy of Parco Archeologico e Paesaggistico della Valle dei Templi. Finziade has been the site of many historical discoveries that have influenced humanity’s knowledge of the ancient Greek and ...

Successively colonised by the Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans, Sicily is packed with ancient treasures to discover. From monumental temples to mosaics of unequalled precision, each of these sites is ...

Irene’s significant policy was ending iconoclasm, which divided the Eastern Roman Empire between iconoclasts and iconophiles from 726 to 787 AD. She supported the iconophiles, who believed in the ...

An ancient Roman mosaic, known as the Roman Mosaic of Panxón, returned to the Spanish city of Nigrán after centuries and a long journey around the world. The municipal government of Nigrán is ...

It was ubiquitous in Roman culture, with roots in the ancient Greek game of Petteia. Ludus Latrunculi was “known for its simplicity yet deep strategic layers,” Koray Erdogan writes for ...

Scientists have deciphered a Roman boundary stone inscribed with Greek text which was recently ... geography and socio-economic status of the ancient region. They’re particularly significant ...

A THIRD century Roman mosaic has returned home to Nigran in Galicia, seven years after being rediscovered in New York. The Panxon mosaic was rediscovered in 2018 by Gonzalo Fernández-Turégano in ...

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Archaeologists uncovered a boundary stone, used to mark land borders during the Roman Empire ... stone like this not only sheds light on ancient land ownership and taxation but also provides ...

A Glossary of Greek Birds. By D'Arcy W. Thompson, Professor of Natural History in University College, Dundee. Pp. xvi + 204. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895.) ...

One of the main entrances to the Roman city of Ossonoba was identified oriented east-west, flanked by several column bases. One of the biggest surprises was the discovery of part of a beautiful mosaic ...