The Computer in the Aegean
The Antikythera Mechanism is ingenious, intricate and highly sophisticated. But what is it?
The Antikythera Mechanism is ingenious, intricate and highly sophisticated. But what is it?
Defending the Home Front in Ancient Greece.
The spread of Hellenic ideas from Greece to the world.
The victory of the Greeks over Persia in 480 BC was more than just a landmark in naval warfare. It shaped the way the past is understood.
In the ancient world, statues were not symbols of virtue and could take revenge on those who attacked them.
Warriors in red cloaks battling against the odds at Thermopylae is the image usually associated with Sparta. But a richer and more contentious tale lies in the ancient city’s stones.
The city of Thebes was central to the ancient Greeks’ achievements in politics and culture. For many centuries it has been largely – and often deliberately – forgotten.
Antiquities were high stakes and high profit in 16th-century Rome, and no one was above breaking the law for loot.
On 21 July 356 BC, the day Alexander the Great was said to have been born, the temple burned to the ground.
King Minos and the Minotaur remain shrouded in mystery and mythology, yet evidence of a Bronze Age ‘Bull Cult’ at the Minoan palaces abounds. Were bulls merely for entertainment or did they have a deeper significance?