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Across the Mediterranean from Greece on the continent of Africa is the region of Nubia, an area that covers parts of what is now...

The "Romance" of Alexander the Great is a unique illuminated manuscript on his life and was the most widely-read romance in the Middle Ages...

A new exhibition at the Allard Museum in Amsterdam displays Greek mummy portraits discovered in Fayoum, Egypt. These were found in a monumental funerary...

The opinions and advice of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers were much sought after, whether about learning, debating, biology, physics, or dialectics, but one...

For centuries, Greece dominated the Mediterranean in both cultural and political terms. However, it was eventually surpassed by Rome. Nonetheless, Greece did not disappear...

While working on construction at Burghley House, a famous English country estate near Stamford, Lincolnshire, workers unearthed a Roman marble bust. Greg Crawley, while operating...

When the Romans besieged Falerii, the city of the resilient Faliscans, their commander found an ingenious way to get them to surrender after years...

The Etruscans and Romans were fierce rivals in early Italic history. Obviously, the Romans ended up being victorious since the Mediterranean came to be...

The ravages of time have not been kind to many ancient Roman statues. Indeed, many of these Classical sculptures were discovered centuries later in...

Modern sources often speak of Greco-Roman mythology. The reason for this expression is that both Greek and Roman mythology are intricately linked. In fact,...