Wednesday, January 31, 2018
A sample of Caligula’s megalomania
Thursday, January 25, 2018
An original bronze by Praxiteles?
Sunday, January 21, 2018
More news from Anticythera
The most significant find of this season may well be the human remains. This is a great opportunity to examine this skeleton’s DNA, hoping that the bones do indeed belong to one of the seafarers who died when the ship went down and not to a later shipwreck.
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
The Khyber Pass into India
His strategic phalanx was dismantled since it no longer served its purpose after the Bactrian guerilla wars. The mounted Lancers joined the Companion Cavalry together with the skillful horsemen from
Even in antiquity, historians tend to focus solely on Alexander, but his generals also excelled in their missions, which were multiplied from Sogdiana and
[The Black&White picture is taken by John Burke, 1879-1880]
Saturday, January 13, 2018
Two more bronze ship rams recovered
Underwater archaeology near the Egadi Islands west of Sicily has yielded several ships’ rams in recent years. The counter stood at eleven pieces, of which one was Carthaginian (see: Sicily and the Sea, temporary exhibition in Amsterdam). This year, two more battering rams named Egadi 12 and Egadi 13 were salvaged from the sea bottom.
Like the previous ones, these ship’s rams belong to the Punic Wars opposing
Besides these wonderful and unique rams, ten bronze helmets of the Montefortino type have also been recovered. One of these helmets displays a lion skin motif surrounding the central knob. Interestingly, the Carthaginian ships’ ram presented at the Sicily and the Sea exhibition mentioned above had the imprint of a Montefortino helmet.
These results are pretty promising for next year’s excavation season!
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Hellenistic gymnasium found in Egypt
The gymnasium of Philoteris is composed of the main building arranged around a courtyard, a large hall for meetings adorned with statues, and a dining hall. The running track met the standard racing distance of a stadium, i.e., about
Friday, January 5, 2018
Ancient Theater unearthed in Thouria
Monday, January 1, 2018
De Griekse Oudheid in Vijftig Levens (A History of Ancient Greece in Fifty Lives) by David Stuttard
David Stuttard has been informed of this unfortunate situation and is taking action.