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How This Parthenon Relief Was Torn Apart—Twice
South Metope IV of the Parthenon is one of many sculptures from the Parthenon in Greece that have been scattered across the ...
Greek Reporter1d
Themistocles: The Fall of a Great Ancient Greek General and Statesman
Themistocles will always be lauded as the great general who pushed the Persians out of Greece with his strategy in the Battle ...
Ancient Greeks and Romans perfumed their statues, study says
The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana2d
Giant turtle sculptures installed as Indigenous Cultural Trail takes shape at Indiana Dunes National Park
A towering yellow crane recently installed two massive, 14,000-lb. snapping turtle sculptures outside the Indiana Dunes Visitors Center, the gateway to the Indiana Dunes National and State Parks.
Greek Reporter3d
Gold and Silver Mines Forged the Glory of Ancient Greece
The gold and silver mines of ancient Greece produced the metals needed to forge empires and lay the foundations of Western ...
IFLScience on MSN5d
Ancient Greek And Roman Statues Were Meant To Be Sniffed – And They Smelled Divine
Greco-Roman sculptors created artworks with more than just visual beauty in mind, and strove to indulge all of the senses in ...
Greek Reporter5d
How Ancient Greeks Explained the Mysteries of Our Galaxy
Ancient Greek theories on the Milky Way galaxy ranged from mythology to science, with ideas from Democritus, Aristotle and the Pythagoreans.
Front Page Detectives on MSN6d
1700-Yr-Old Marble Statue of Hercules Depicting His Heroism Found in Italy with Severed Head Stuns Archaeologists
Yr-Old Marble Statue of Hercules Depicting His Heroism Found in Italy with Severed Head Stuns Archaeologists Multiple Roman ...
Archaeology14d
Ancient Greek Statues Smelled of Perfume
Greek City Times reports that groundbreaking new research reveals that many Greco-Roman sculptures were not only painted, draped in clothing, and adorned with jewelry, but were even doused in ...
Greek Reporter15d
The Cosmos of Ancient Greece’s Antikythera Mechanism
Among statues, ceramic vases ... It also depicted the eclipses of the Sun and the Moon. Archimedes, like Aristotle, was crucial in the creation of the golden age of Greek science. He measured curved ...
Greek Reporter16d
How Greek Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis Became the Richest Man in the World
How Aristotle Onassis Became the Richest Man in the World. Credit: Greek Reporter illustration. Pieter Jongerhuis/ CC BY-SA 3.0 nl Aristotle Onassis was one of the most famous Greeks in the entire ...