Walking along the ancient Roman roads of Pompeii today, you can still see the grooves carved into the paving stones by thousands of years of cart wheels. What you cannot see is what ancient pedestrians experienced after sunset: streets...
Without exaggeration, long before the first drone tore through the skies, and centuries before Leonardo da Vinci sketched his flying machines, an ancient Greek thinker, Archytas, built one of the first-ever flying machines.
In the ancient city of Tarentum, in...
Everyone knows Alexander the Great and Leonidas, figures familiar not only from ancient history but also from their frequent reinvention in film and popular culture. Ancient history has a small group of names that circulate widely in documentaries, video...
The city of Crotone, a historic jewel of Magna Graecia, is embracing its Greek heritage with the addition of a new, imposing statue of Zeus, further enriching its cultural landscape.
This tribute to the king of the Olympian gods serves...
The Valle Dei Templi, or Valley of the Temples, dominating the hills near the southern coast of Sicily has captivated visitors for centuries.
This magnificent site, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site, is the greatest example of Greek presence...
Gorgias was a Greek man from Sicily who visited Athens in 427 BC. Soon after, he discovered his life's purpose and began telling everyone that reality was not what people thought it was.
Understandably, the individual had some serious nerve...
Last Sunday, the ancient heart of Taranto, Magna Graecia, beat to a rhythm thousands of years old. The fourth edition of “Il Ritorno di Persephone” (The Return of Persephone) commenced at Piazzetta Monteoliveto, filling the historic center with a...
Picture yourself walking through a noisy market square in an ancient Greek town in southern Italy possibly around the year 500 BC, when philosopher Parmenides lived.
It must be a buzzing community, right? The sun is out, donkeys are transporting...
The Samnites were Italic tribes that migrated from Central Europe to the mountainous area of south-central Italy in the 9th century BC. They later became an enemy of Rome.
Even though these tribes shared language and cultural ties, each maintained...
While patents are often considered a modern legal invention, evidence suggests that Ancient Greek society may have developed early forms of patent-like protection. Writing in the 3rd century AD, the Greek author Athenaeus of Naucratis points to a system...
