Armand D'Angour has received funding from the British Academy, from the University of Oxford, and from Jesus College, Oxford. In 1932, the musicologist Wilfrid Perrett reported to an audience at the ...
A centuries-old puzzle about the music that Ancient Greeks listened to has finally been solved, thanks to a pioneering new study. Music was an integral part of Ancient Greek culture, with the work of ...
An architectural dig on an ancient Greek battlefield, returned to in 1880, unearthed a surprising find: a mass grave of Theban soldiers carefully and deliberately buried in pairs. Make that couples.
Kastalia Medrano is a Manhattan-based journalist whose writing has appeared at outlets like Pacific Standard, VICE, National Geographic, the Paris Review Daily, and Real Life magazine. Her RTs = ...
The ancient Greek kingdom of Pylos is nowhere near as familiar in today’s popular consciousness as city-states with names like Corinth or Thebes, but it did get a shout-out from Homer in both the ...
Archaeologists who thought they were excavating the site of an ancient house in Greece recently uncovered something much more rare: a wealthy Bronze Age warrior's tomb, chock-full of precious metals ...