18+ hour, 7+ min ago  (834+ words) For centuries, historians treated Homer's Iliad as literature. A beautiful story about gods, heroes, and a woman beautiful enough to launch a thousand ships to sea. Helen, Achilles, the wooden horse. Fiction. Myth. Poetry. But beneath a hill in northwestern…...

9+ hour, 24+ min ago  (288+ words) A Berkshire town's Roman heritage will be "reimagined" thanks to an "80, 000 government grant. Reading Museum said it plans to use the money to create a new interactive gallery, "based on decades of ground-breaking research by the University of Reading" and…...

6+ hour, 16+ min ago  (902+ words) The letter in which lawyer Moses Saul informed Italian Consul General Guelfo Zamboni of the impending persecution of Thessaloniki's Jews was discovered buried in the archives of the Italian Cultural Institute of Thessaloniki (Instituto Italiano di Cultura), a building recently…...

1+ day, 53+ min ago  (403+ words) The tiny, scenic neighborhood of Anafiotika just above Plaka and below the Acropolis is often overlooked by visitors to Athens and even by some Athenians themselves. With patches of cool and quiet, Anafiotika is a hideaway for about sixty residents…...

12+ hour, 6+ min ago  (267+ words) Rome is one of the most famous cities in history. But it did not rise in an empty land. Before empire, before marble, before the Roman world takes over the map, central Italy is already crowded with graves, hilltop communities,…...

22+ hour, 39+ min ago  (257+ words) Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient cult site on the Greek island of Ithaca dedicated to Odysseus, the legendary hero of Homer's epic, offering fresh evidence of the deep entanglement between myth and religious practice in ancient Greece, the Culture Ministry…...

21+ hour, 35+ min ago  (137+ words) Roman mosaic shows topless woman battling leopard in arena, study finds For the first time ever, an image of a Roman woman battling a beast in an arena has been identified. The mosaic was found in Reims, France, in 1860. Most…...

20+ hour, 21+ min ago  (207+ words) Visitors to Rome's Colosseum now have a new chance to step back into history thanks to a renovation project that's unearthed several entrance columns that have been buried for hundreds of years. Italy's most iconic landmark has been given a…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago  (298+ words) The very spirit of a community is its people. You have to admire the spirit of a community like ours. A proud people, fiercely loyal to our friends and family, our homes and community, we are resilient. We survive. We…...

21+ hour, 47+ min ago  (223+ words) When Athens Became an Empire | The Wall Street Journal - newspaper'Magzter RISE AND FALL 'Ruins of the Parthenon' (1880) by Sanford Robinson Gifford. (Sanford Robinson Gifford)But they had trouble leaving the harbor According to Plutarch, writing nearly five centuries later: "The…...