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The May Day Wreath and Its Roots in Ancient Greece
One aspect of modern May Day celebrations is the preparation of a flower wreath from wild flowers against a background of ...
What the ancient world can teach us about death
In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...
Bodies found in Greece mass grave had "bullets in the heads," officials say
Graves unearthed in northern Greece contain bones widely believed to be from victims of the country's civil war in the late ...
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Was Talos, the Bronze Automaton Who Guarded the Island of Crete in Greek Myth, an Early Example of Artificial Intelligence?
One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...
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Athens’ Darkest Hour: The Plague That Shook the Ancient Greek World
The ancient world suffered immensely from plagues, like the 430 BC Athenian plague, which had lasting consequences for all of ...
Greece’s dark past is uncovered after 33 bodies are found in a civil war-era mass grave
Decades ago, the neighborhood park in Thessaloniki — a densely populated port city of a million with ruins from the ancient ...
Discovered by chance, a mass grave revives memories of Greece's brutal civil war
For the families of slain pro-Communist Greeks, the find in the Park of National Resistance is reviving a wartime legacy kept ...
Contributor: What the ancient world can teach us about death
In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we're dead ...
The chance discovery of a mass grave opens up old wounds in Greece
For the families of slain pro-Communist Greeks, the find in the Park of National Resistance is reviving a wartime legacy kept ...