The fantastical beasts of ancient Greece
We think of the Greeks as the orderly people who gave us drama, democracy and philosophy. But they had a dark side – revealed by the monsters in their art.
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NASA Adds to Evidence of Mysterious Ancient Earthworks
Satellite photographs from 430 miles above Kazakhstan reveal colossal geometric figures that remain puzzling and largely unknown.
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Ancient and modern: making 4,000-year-old music with a 21st-century twist
Asked if she fancied making ‘extreme early music’, Stef Conner couldn’t resist. Little did she realise how extreme. She explains how she has breathed life into a 4,000-year-old language
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Ancient manuscript pieced together after Cairo Museum find
The 2.5 metre, 4,000-year-old artefact, containing spells and depictions of gods, is both the longest and oldest leather manuscript from ancient Egypt.
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Ancient Greek palace unearthed near Sparta dates back to 17th century BC
Archaeologists discover palace with archaic inscriptions built during the Mycenaean period.
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Hi-tech schools rescuing an ancient language
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Technology and education have a long, complicated and sometimes exaggerated relationship
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How did ancient Greek music sound?
The music of ancient Greece, unheard for thousands of years, is being brought back to life by Armand D’Angour, a musician and tutor in classics at Oxford University.
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India’s ancient university returns to life
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Trajan
The first historic figure is the Roman emperor Trajan. When I was studying Ancient Culture and Society, he was always my favorite emperor. A seemingly good man, caught up in a difficult time. Ironically, though he seemed to have no taste for war and fighting, he was the Roman emperor credited with achieving the greatest expansion of the Roman empire. His life’s work has been documented on a monument in Rome, Trajan’s Column. There you can follow his career on what could be described as a sort of cartoon. In some images of Trajan he looks quite handsome. I imagine they are from his youth. So there you have him, one of the few Roman emperors about whom even the ancient Roman gossip columnists couldn’t find anything scandalous to say.
