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From tastings with olive oil sommeliers to celebrating harvest season at family-run mills, here’s how to experience ...
In ancient Greece ... on Greece’s mainland, the Peloponnese peninsula, is an ideal starting point for any gourmand’s adventure. Near the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, a new kind of sanctuary ...
The Diolkos stone road is a marvel of engineering from Ancient Greece, allowing ships to travel from the Ionian Sea to the Aegean Sea.
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What Was the Polis?
For the Greeks, the idea was a fluid one—a literal place and a civic ideal that allowed for democracy to flourish.
One of the big contentions of popular historian William Dalrymple’s latest book “The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World,” which came out in the United States a few weeks ...
Some of the most outstanding include 3,500-year-old palaces at Mycenae and Pylos; the incredibly well-preserved theater at Epidaurus; Olympia ... Byzantine churches. Peloponnese also has infinite ...
New research from an international group looking at ancient sediment cores in the North Atlantic has for the first time shown a strong correlation between sediment changes and a marked period of ...
The Antikythera Mechanism, widely believed to be the world’s first computer, has had a lasting impact on scientists across ...
"where I can explain I was lucky enough to discover a page [from] the history of our people" A man recently discovered nearly 1,500 silver coins from ancient Rome while hiking. Romanian man Marius ...
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