While often associated with the Greeks, these jars were also commonly used by ancient Romans and Phoenicians. Amphorae have served archaeologists and historians well, in terms of revealing the ...

It is believed that the advance news of the capture of Troy by the Greek commander Agamemnon was communicated ... Each army would have the same earthenware or clay jar with a hole of exactly the same ...

Hidden for nearly 3,000 years, a beautifully preserved canopic jar is discovered in Egypt ... Learn more about ancient Egyptian burial traditions and how they honored the dead.

So, technically, a jar can be called a certain type of honey ... and the subsequent flower blossoms. There's a reason ancient ...

This jar shows people harvesting olives ... Men and women usually ate separately in ancient Greece. Rich people always ate at home - only enslaved people and poor people would eat in public.

Women came here to fill jars with water to carry home on their heads. Ancient Greek homes were built around a courtyard or garden. The walls were often made from wood and mud bricks. They had ...