Ancient Greeks held festivals ... Guarded on pain of death, the rituals remain mysterious to this day. By the fourth century B.C., cults had emerged that claimed to offer purification by cleansing ...

Bread has been intricately woven into human history for thousands of years, and ancient Greece was no exception.

Older people ... ancient past, Finch and Burstein found not one mention of memory loss in medical writings from Hippocrates, his later followers, or even Aristotle. In Greek texts from the 4th ...

Treating’ Amulet Unearthed in Turkey With Crab Motif and Healing Inscriptions Excavations conducted in the ancient city of ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered for ... Sensual MusicAn auletris (flautist) performs at a symposium, as depicted on a fourth-century B.C. vessel from the Louvre, Paris.

It was built during the 4th century ... in south west Greece. Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch and take part. Image caption, The ancient Olympic ...

SIMFEROPOL, November 9. /TASS/. Researchers from the Russian Academy of Sciences Archaeology Institute have discovered a previously unknown ancient Greek settlement in eastern Crimea, Chairman of ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman sewer last week made a spectacular discovery—a nearly complete marble statue of a Greek god ... was founded in the 4th century BC by colonists from ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato ... But the system that Socrates is rejecting, Athenian ...