While reading ancient Greco-Roman texts, Brøns noticed a handful of references to sweet-smelling statues. She was intrigued, so she decided to go looking for even more mentions of scented sculptures.

Excitement has re-ignited within Ifield's archaeological community as an ancient Bloomery (a furnace for smelting iron) has been located - embedded in Ifield Brook. Did you know with an ad-lite ...

The ancient Greek language did not have a single set of ... which had stopped being used in other dialects (even though it managed to reach our times as the letter ‘F’ of the Latin alphabet). This can ...

Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

What are silent letters? Silent letters are basically alphabets in a word that are not pronounced when spoken. For example, in the word knight, the ‘k’ and ‘gh’ are silent, and what we ...

Before World War II, the Nazis sought an ancient Roman manuscript to prove the existence of a superior race linked to Atlantis. Credit: GreekReporter Archives In the years before World War II, the ...

It is a victory for the Roman triumphal arch that the monument’s influence survived long after the empire itself. (The obelisk is an ancient Egyptian architectural feat. So why are so few in Egypt?) ...

Our Missing Letter Crossword February 28, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found ...

The [US’s] Republican system was modelled on that of ancient Rome, but the [Roman] Republic ended up becoming an autocracy, and so in America, there’s always been this anxiety that a ...

Yet despite a wealth of data and new techniques including ancient DNA analysis ... the emblems of the Roman Tenth Legion (abbreviated “LEGX F”). First-century a.d. Roman writers including ...