Archaeologists have uncovered Greek full-colour portraits of mummies – the first to be found in…
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Deep in the mesmerising region of Megalopolis, Southern Greece, an extraordinary archaeological discovery has rewritten the history of ancient Greek civilisation. Recently unearthed stone tools have pushed back the dawn of Greek archaeology by a staggering quarter million years, revealing a fascinating glimpse into the lives of our hominin ancestors.
After his talk Myths & Dreamings: Cross Hatchings between Ancient Greece and Indigenous Australia, organised…
A collection of rare marble artifacts was uncovered at a 1,800-year-old shipwreck just 200 meters…
Egypt to make its own documentary on Queen Cleopatra in response to Netflix's historical revisionism
An Egyptian channel has begun producing a documentary on Cleopatra that will adhere to historical…
Cleopatra, the Greek queen of Egypt and the last pharaoh, is one of the most…
The annual Lysicrates Prize competition – where the audience votes for the winning playwright who receives a $15,000 commission to complete the full play – takes place tomorrow and you could be part of it and witness the birth of a new Australian classic!
Ancient Greece is a historical period that has long been a subject of fascination and…
Greece’s Culture Ministry has announced that it will allow pets to enter more than 120 archaeological sites across the country, easing the current regulations that only allow guide dogs for disabled visitors.
Archestratus, a poet and philosopher from ancient Greece, is credited with writing the first cookbook…
The Lysicrates Prize is an annual competition that showcases some of Australia’s most exciting playwriting talent and awards the commission of that play. The 7th Lysicrates Prize will be held on Saturday 29th April 2023 at the Conservatorium of Music and tickets are now available.
On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn…
Stunned researchers discover that, in addition to accurately tracing the movement of the sun, moon and predicting when eclipses would occur, the Antikythera Mechanism created by the Ancient Greeks around 100-200BC also tracked the movements of Venus and Saturn. “Our work reveals the Antikythera Mechanism as a beautiful conception, translated by superb engineering into a device of genius,” the study concludes about the creation considered to be the world’s first computer.
World Pi Day 2023 is celebrated today, March 14, 2023, all across the globe. Pi Day was first…
Jimmy Kimmel, this year’s host, joked at the unveiling on Thursday that the color change…
The amazing array of similarities in the underlying hierophanics of ancient Greece and Indigenous Australia…
Ancient Greek engineers were only, according to National Technical College professor Theodosis Tassios, ten to…
American media personality, businesswoman, socialite, model, and entertainer Paris Hilton has announced her son’s name – Phoenix Barron Hilton Reum.
A 25-year-old British man has found an Ancient Greek coin depicting Alexander the Great and…
We think of Valentine’s Day as a Christian holiday, but the truth is that the…