Myson of Chenae, named a sage by Plato instead of Periander, stood for ethical wisdom over political power in Greek ...

Three different designs of ancient Greek columns. The Greeks believed that the secret to making a great building was maths. They carefully designed and measured their buildings, making sure they ...

Greek cities had beautiful temples with stone columns and statues, and open-air theatres where people sat to watch plays. Image caption, Ancient Greek ruins of the Temple of Apollo and theatre in ...

For centuries, the study of cuneiform—the world’s oldest known writing system—relied on painstaking manual transcription, ...

An expert works on the restoration of an ancient palm-leaf manuscript at Fudan University Library. Photo: Courtesy of Fudan ...

A badly burnt scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", providing the first look inside for 2,000 years. The document, which looks like a lump of charcoal, was charred ...

Ancient metallurgy refers to the techniques ... This Nature Research Intelligence Topic summary is one of 30,000 created with generative AI and the cited references. We take care to ground ...

View our world through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to ...

The word skolion means “sideways” in ancient Greek, a reference to how the guests took turns to sing, afterward passing a myrtle branch to the man reclining next to him who was to sing next.

Recent studies have provided new insights into the function and distribution of these structures, revealing their significance in ancient hunting ... This Nature Research Intelligence Topic ...