The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

In ancient Greece people enjoyed chilled wine at social gatherings, using specially designed cooling pots called psykter.

INFELD has shown how the field equations of my new electrodynamics can be written so as not to require an æther. This is not sufficient to make a complete dynamical theory. It is necessary to set ...

The long extinct dwarf deer was depicted in the cave drawings. Public Domain The earliest Greek cave art depicting extinct animals was discovered on Crete and is believed to be at least 11,000 years ...

Dr Thomas Strasser of Providence College, Rhode Island says “This is the first palaeolithic art ever found in Greece and it’s significant because it deepens the history of art there by many thousands ...

Greek mythology is fascinating. Although these myths or legends were told by ancient people thousands of years ago, they hold universal truths and lessons that relate to us in our modern-day lives.

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