The history of ancient Greek coinage can be divided (along with most other Greek art forms) into four periods: the Archaic, the Classical, the Hellenistic and the Roman. The Archaic period extends from the…

A vast network of underground chambers and water tunnels have been discovered beneath several of the world’s most well-known pyramids, including the Great Pyramid on Egypt’s Giza…

Visitors can see the frescoes that adorned the “thermopolium,” as the restaurant would have been called. Archaeologists studying the Roman city of Pompeii recently discovered a thermopolium—a kind of ancient…

The largest bronze mirror and the largest “dako” iron sword in Japan were discovered at the  Tomio Maruyama burial mound in Nara. Experts say the twin discoveries from the…

Sculptor born in Iseo, Ticino, Switzerland, of an Italian father, the sculptor Gaetano Matteo Monti (1776–1847) of Ravenna. Raffaele studied with his father, and under the sculptor…

Scientists have discovered a large empty room the size of an airplane in the heart of the Great Pyramid of Giza. This shocking discovery will be the…

Gilgamesh is the semi-mythic King of Uruk best known as the hero of The Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2150-1400 BCE) the great Babylonian poem that predates Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey by 1500 years and, therefore, stands…

No, Neferтιтi and Nefertari are not the same person; they are two distinct historical figures from ancient Egypt. Nefertari, also known as Nefertari Meritmut, was an Egyptian queen…