A remarkable Roman mosaic found in Rutland turns out to tell a forgotten version of the Trojan War. Rather than Homer’s famous epic, it reflects a lost Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, featuring vivid ...
Above ground, Cappadocia feels utterly otherworldly. Wind-carved fairy chimneys rise dramatically from dusty valleys, their pale pink and honey-coloured rock glowing brilliantly under the warm Turkish ...
Section of Panel 1 of the Ketton Mosaic shows Hector, prince of Troy, in his chariot. Credit: ULAS An ancient historian at the University of Leicester has found that the Rutland mosaic presents a ...
The most dramatic of the mosaic’s three panels, with a naked Achilles attacking Hector. Credit: University of Leichester In the summer of 2020, during Britain’s COVID lockdown, Jim Irvine noticed ...
A newly discovered 2,800-year-old royal tomb in Turkey offers rare insights into the ancient Phrygian Kingdom and its connections to King Midas. In the heart of Turkey, hidden beneath the earthen ...
Panel one of the Ketton mosaic, which was discovered in 2020 by a farmer's son University of Leicester Archaeological Services Several years ago, archaeologists excavated an ancient Roman mosaic in ...
A Roman mosaic recently discovered in Britain depicts a long-lost version of the Trojan War story that differs from the most famous telling of the saga. The artifact, known as the Ketton Mosaic, shows ...
Archaeologists have determined that the celebrated Roman mosaic discovered in Rutland, England in 2020 depicts a “long-lost” version of the Trojan War myth. This stunning piece, known as the Ketton ...
A recent report describes a 2,700-year-old rock cut temple near the modern city of Denizli in western Turkey. Archaeologists think the temple was built by the Phrygians, an Iron Age people from ...
For almost 100 years archaeologists in Turkey thought they knew everything about the famous 7th-century-BC Maltaş monument. That just changed, after a 40-day emergency excavation revealed the rock-cut ...
During excavations at Midas Castle, a Bronze Age site in Eskisehir in northwestern Turkey, archaeologists unearthed an astonishing collection of ruins linked to an ancient culture that once reigned ...
DENIZLI, TURKEY—Live Science reports that a temple discovered in western Turkey may have been built by the Phrygians some 2,700 years ago. The temple is thought to have been dedicated to the Phrygian ...
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