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Fascinating Facts about Ancient Greece for Print & Play

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Some of the Last Remnants of Ancient Civilizations

Solving A 1,600-Year-Old Roman Mystery: Parchment Fragments That Surprisingly Survived In The Egyptian Sands

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A Roman law expert from the University of Cincinnati has edited and translated a Latin legal text that was pieced together from fragments buried i...

8 Travel Destinations Ancient Romans Had on Their Bucket Lists

The ancient Romans valued travel, and visited Greek islands, the Pyramids of Giza, the Olympic Games, and various bathhouses, among other destinations.

Foods From the Ancient World That Sound Absolutely Unhinged

The Most Famous People Born in Each Decade in European History

7 Household Items Every Ancient Greek Family Owned

These seemingly boring items can tell us a lot about the home life of the ancient Greeks.

From Nefertiti to Cleopatra, Ancient Egypt's Biggest Mysteries Have Yet to Be Solved

Learn more about some of ancient Egypt's most sought-after mysteries and what we have discovered so far. 

What Is the Oldest Story Ever? Gather ‘Round, Folks.

Five Ancient Gold Coins and the Stories They Tell

Golden Echoes: Five Ancient Coins That Changed the World Gold has always represented more than just wealth. In antiquity, it symbolized the divine, immortal, untarnished, and reser...

8 Household Items Every Ancient Egyptian Family Owned

From makeup and board games to stone pillows and toe socks, the everyday items of ancient Egyptians reveal they valued cleanliness, leisure, and piety.

While Helping Beachgoers Recover Lost Items, Official Finds Rare 2,500-Year-Old Coin Linked to Ancient Trade Routes

Learn more about an ancient coin from Cyprus that was recently uncovered on Ashdod Beach and what it could help reveal about trade in the 5th century. 

America’s Ancient Relationship With Greenland

What historical ‘fact’ doesn’t have much evidence to support it? – 17 details about the past that textbooks get wrong

History, as they say, is written by the victors. Which inevitably means that certain details are going to be misinterpreted. This results in inaccuracies being taken at face value,...

More Than 22,000 Ancient Artifacts Seized in Florida

The items include Egyptian statues and ancient Greek and Roman coins that date back 1,000 to 5,000 years, officials said.

What 'The Odyssey' Gets Right (And Wrong) About the Ancient World

Did Homer get Greek history right? Explore what 'The Odyssey' reveals about ancient hospitality, sailing, armor, and Bronze Age historical blunders.

Highway Construction In England Just Turned Up An Ancient Roman Nail Cleaner With A Copper Phallus For A Handle

The nail cleaner dates to between 300 and 400 C.E., when Britain was part of the Roman Empire — and phalluses were seen as good luck charms, not obscene symbols. The post Highway C...

What Ancient Romans Really Watched at the Colosseum — It Wasn’t Just Gladiator Fights

The Romans had a knack for transforming ordinary duels into elaborately staged spectacles.

Ancient Greece Had a Giant Bronze Robot—And His Story Sounds Like Science Fiction

Thousands of years before robots became reality, Greek mythology introduced Talos, a bronze giant whose story explored artificial life and humanity.

The Only Ancient Coin Ever Struck with Egyptian Hieroglyphics

With Permission By Russell A. Augustin In the long history of ancient coinage, innovation usually followed power. Greek city-states expressed civic identity through coin designs, a...

Scientists Find Unexpected Ingredients in Ancient Egyptian Paint

The findings suggest that the artists of ancient Egypt cared deeply about every step of their work.

Archaeologists Thought This Was a Roman Temple. It Might Actually Be a 1,700-Year-Old Library

Using an innovative approach, scientists reevaluated a room thought to be a cult shrine, finding more evidence that this was actually a rare library.

A 2,500-year-old animal bone found in Sicily reveals how ancient people wrote on clay

Archaeologists found Homer's Iliad inside a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy

A 1,600-year-old mummy discovered in Egypt has revealed something archaeologists had never seen before: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad used during embalming. The papyrus was identifie...