The exhibition "A Journey to Ancient Greece" celebrated its grand opening , at the Liangzhou Museum in China's Zhejiang Province.

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5th century BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from ...

As one of history's most famous figures, many stop to wonder what Cleopatra VII Philopator really looked like.

A series of groundbreaking genetic studies, highlighted in recent analyses, confirm that modern Greeks retain strong DNA continuity with their Bronze Age ancestors — the Minoans and Mycenaeans — ...

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world. Early Roman Empire depiction of a Freedman and Freedwoman, 30-15 BCE. British Museum, London, UK.

If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don't just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus Gellius, who lived in the 2nd century CE, gives us a ...

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