Spells, charms, erotic dolls: love magic in the ancient Mediterranean
Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle In our sexual histories series, authors explore changing sexual mores from antiquity to today. It
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The Oracle at Delphi was the Most Important Woman of the Ancient World. Who was she?
She proclaimed Socrates the wisest man in the world, predicted the rise of Alexander the Great, foretold the death of
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Scientists Dated an Olive Tree in Turkey to be 3,000 Years Old
Around the time Homer was writing the Iliad, someone planted an olive tree in Turkey near what later must have
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Five Ancient Shipwrecks with Pyramid Anchors were Discovered at a Lost Greek Port
An underwater research mission in Greece was sent out to study the area around the island of Kasos and they
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Is this Ancient Gear Mechanism the First Computer on Earth?
The Antikythera mechanism, as it is known, is quite possibly earth’s first computer and the most ancient gear system ever
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