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Nine villages in southern Italy known as La Grecia Salentina have maintained aspects of the Greek language and culture for ...

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A ziggurat (also spelled ziqqurat) was a raised platform with four sloping sides that looked like a tiered pyramid.

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Afghanistan's central bank seal features a 2nd-century BC Greek tetradrachm of King Eucratides I, depicting the Dioscuri ...

Discover how the classical education system evolved from elementary instruction in Latin and Greek to the advanced study of rhetoric, law, philosophy, and medicine. With vivid insights into classrooms ...

Despite the 1923 population exchange that displaced most Pontic Greeks, the archaic Romeyka dialect—a variety of Pontic Greek ...

In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

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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.