Ancient scroll found at Mount Vesuvius reveals details of Plato’s final hours - Scientists use scanners to read about 1,000 ...
The Greek philosopher Plato—Socrates’ student and Aristotle’s teacher—died nearly 2,400 years ago, having produced a voluminous amount of writing on political philosophy, aesthetics ...
Sometime in the eighth century, a monk at St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula was preparing to transcribe a book of the Bible in Arabic and needed fresh parchment. New ...
The victory of the Roman emperor Trajan over the Dacians in back-to-back wars is carved in numerous scenes that spiral around a 126-foot marble pillar in Rome known as Trajan’s Column.
Ancient Rome was a man’s world. In politics, society and the family, men held both the power and the purse-strings – they even decided whether a baby would live or die. Families were dominated ...
May 9, 2024 — After a century of functional extinction on the Australian mainland, a Flat oyster reef has been successfully restored along a metropolitan Adelaide ... Marine Bacteria Team Up to ...
Enos, Richard Leo 2022. A Site-Perspective on the Second Sophistic of the near East and Its Impact on the History of Rhetoric: An Overview. Humanities, Vol. 11, Issue. 6, p. 154. Monson, Andrew 2023.
Genetic tests of ancient settlers' remains show that Europe is a melting pot of bloodlines from Africa, the Middle East, and today's Russia. Three waves of immigrants settled prehistoric Europe.
More than 50 etchings from soldiers have been discovered on an English castle door in an "astonishing discovery," including graffiti of what could depict the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte ...
The Japanese producer and star unpacks Lord Toranaga's intentions and the show's long journey to completion: "That we were able to make this happen is like a miracle to me." By Patrick Brzeski ...
Finding out about Howard Carter's extraordinary discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922. This video gives pupils an understanding of the life and death of King Tutankhamun. It explains how we ...