When mentioning the guibiao, Gao said it is a set of gnomon shadow measurement tools comprising a vertical bar called biao ...

By Kara Armstrong This summer, a group of eight to twelve KU students will study abroad in Athens, Greece, the center of the ancient world. The program, running May 22, 2025 to June 16, 2025, will be ...

In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before ...

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An archaeological dig in Palaepaphos has revealed an intriguing inscription of ancient Cypriot writing on a wall from the 6th ...

The cultural shift in institutions continues as “ Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now ” headlines at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This new exhibit, which opened Nov. 17 at ...

Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined two arguments for vegetarianism ...

Historians studying a letter written by King Otto I of Germany to his wife Queen Edith have believed the piece was written in ...

I just received the first volume of a valuable book published in Yerevan in 2021 that makes public for the first time some of ...

Queen Tiye of Egypt is regarded as the figure who paved the way for the world's major religions and was venerated as a ...

The feds are offering a reward for information leading to a successful prosecution in the case involving vandalism at a ...

What has been described as the world's oldest alphabet, inscribed on a series of inscriptions on clay fragments - dating back ...