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Modern day obsessions with healthy eating and fat-free foods for fitness is not new; it goes back to the ancient Greeks and ...
Nymphs offer us more than just stories of sexy nature spirits. They can reveal how ancient people thought about their world ...
Archaeologists have discovered multiple artifacts depicting ancient Greek deities in the ancient city of Finziade in Sicily.
From seasonal intimacy schedules to open-air nudity, ancient Greco-Roman thinkers had no shortage of theories on how to stay ...
Texts from Cicero, Callimachus, and other ancient writers describe how statues were anointed with fragrant oils and ointments ...
The thousands of fragments once formed an enormous fresco that decorated around 20 walls in a building in central London.
Ancient Greek and Roman diets were simple and their plate contained plenty of fresh fruits, vegetables and legumes. Fresh fish was also popular, along with small amounts of lean red meat and dairy.
Experts in London have spent three months piecing together the shattered remains of Roman artworks, revealing luxurious frescoes not seen for more than 1,800 years.
The disease killed the ancient Greeks and Romans—as well as the peoples who tried to conquer them—by the hundreds of thousands, playing a major role in the outcomes of their wars.