3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (364+ words) Byzantine Emperors never claimed pagan divinity, but they learned to look like gods, knowing how to cast themselves as the “living image” of heaven’s rule on earth. From the fourth century onwards, the imperial office in Constantinople fused Christian theology…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (207+ words) A funny thing about Athens that only geography, history, and linguistic buffs would notice is that its very name holds a clue to its origins. In Ancient Greek, the city’s name was written as “Athenai” (Ἀθῆναι), which literally means “the…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (262+ words) Archaeologists working in Russia’s Valley of the Kings have discovered a rare set of millstones that could provide evidence of previously unknown Scythian rituals. The objects were found at Tunnug-1, an Early Scythian burial mound in Tuva, southern Siberia. The…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (412+ words) Archaeologists working at an ancient Hittite settlement in central Anatolia have uncovered a rare hieroglyphic seal bearing an inscription that someone deliberately erased thousands of years ago, according to researchers from the Italian Archaeological Mission in Central Anatolia. The dome-shaped…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (403+ words) Archaeologists excavating the ancient Greek city of Smyrna (Σμύρνα) in modern-day Turkey have uncovered three previously unknown rooms containing mosaics along with wall frescoes that had never been documented at the site before, the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality announced. The excavation…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (403+ words) Archaeologists have unearthed the Heracles Gate, a monumental Roman-period entrance decorated with reliefs depicting the Twelve Labours of Heracles, in the ancient Greek city of Side in modern-day Turkey. The gate was found during excavations along a nearly 390-meter (1,280-foot)…...