Greek archaeologists have discovered a small but interesting hoard of coins on the hill of…
Tag: Cyrene
Apollonia in Cyrenaica (modern Libya) was founded by Greek colonists and became a significant commercial…
Cyrene is the relatively unknown ancient Greek city near present-day Shahhat, Libya, which was not…
Kyrenia (Ancient Greek: Κυρήνη), or more commonly known today as Cyrene, was founded as a…
The Ancient Greeks revered their gods in statuary and sculpture and art and Persephone was no exception because of her rare beauty and intensity. The Two Goddesses famously adorned the East Pediment of the Parthenon atop the Acropolis in their “marbl’d immortality” until they were forcibly removed by Lord Elgin and his men, beginning in 1802.
After a long legal battle, the British Museum last week returned a looted ancient Greek…