Few figures in ancient mythology remain as legendary to this day as Odysseus, the fabled Greek king of Ithaca who devised the ...

Those on the lower rungs of the social order, however, made their masks from paper ... Greek texts, business papers, various mundane papers, personal letters.” Getting to the ancient papyrus ...

Ancient Greek city of Finziade in Italy yielded discoveries of clay molds, a shrine, a statuette, and a dice like those used ...

It is often said that the acoustics of ancient ... legends about Greek theaters may no longer hold water. At Epidaurus, for instance, the sounds of a coin dropping or a paper tearing could be ...

Ancient Greek mercenaries were a ubiquitous force on the battlefields of the ancient Mediterranean where they fought for various employers.

The other two masks were found inside the catacomb along with terra-cotta figurines of Isis-Aphrodite — the goddess of childbirth and rebirth — and her son Harpocrates, the Greek take on Horus ...

Forgotten by time and obscured by the desert, a collection of ancient burials — and their ... Several of the graves had colorful masks that represented the deceased person’s face.