Ancient Greek

The Arms and Armour Auction at Christie’s will be selling the acclaimed Mougins Museum of Classical Art collection of Greek and Roman armour.

Archaeologists discovered a mass grave near Athens, and some historians believe it may house the remains of insurgents involved in an attempted 7th century B.C. coup.

Media is calling it an “underwater Pompeii.” Researchers have found ruins off the coast of Delos.

Many cultures throughout history have oriented their temples and graves toward the East.

The Antikythera Mechanism was found by divers in 1900 and was used around 80 B.C. in ancient Greece. It is an astronomical device with which one could tell the positions of the stars, planets, sun, and moon as well as predict lunar and solar eclipses for decades to follow.

The Arms and Armour Auction at Christie’s will be selling the acclaimed Mougins Museum of Classical Art collection of Greek and Roman armour.

Archaeologists discovered a mass grave near Athens, and some historians believe it may house the remains of insurgents involved in an attempted 7th century B.C. coup.

Media is calling it an “underwater Pompeii.” Researchers have found ruins off the coast of Delos.

Many cultures throughout history have oriented their temples and graves toward the East.

The Antikythera Mechanism was found by divers in 1900 and was used around 80 B.C. in ancient Greece. It is an astronomical device with which one could tell the positions of the stars, planets, sun, and moon as well as predict lunar and solar eclipses for decades to follow.