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Atlantis: How Plato’s Story Corresponds to Real History
May 30, 2024 · The book ATLANTIS The Find of a Lifetime embarks on a 10,000-year journey that effectively reveals Atlantis’s submerged island and demonstrates how Plato’s 2400-year-old story corresponds to real history. Not only do the physical characteristics of the proposed location, along with the given chronology, match Plato’s description, but all ...
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1 day ago · Ancient Fossil Unveils ‘Dragon’ From 240 Million Years Ago. Abdul Moeed - November 12, 2024. Researchers in China recently unveiled the remarkable fossils of an ancient sea creature commonly known as the "Chinese dragon." This creature, known as Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, lived around 240 million years ago during the Triassic period.
The Greatest Motivational Speech Ever, by Leonidas, King of Sparta
Oct 10, 2024 · Leonidas, the King of Sparta. Credit: Andy Hay, CC BY 2.0/ flickr The year was 480 BC when King Leonidas of Sparta, left with only a few dozen fighters from the original 300 at Thermopylae, gave a speech whose motivational power has resonated over the millennia.. The truth is that we do not know exactly what Leonidas told his troops.
Cleopatra’s Lost Tomb: Archaeologist in Egypt Thrills with New Clues
Mar 7, 2024 · After two years of new excavation work, Dr Kathleen Martinez, a determined archaeologist who has been searching for Cleopatra’s tomb in Egypt since 2005 has released a new update on the whereabouts of the ancient Egyptian queen’s resting place. In 2022, Dr Kathleen Martinez told the world she and her team had discovered a tunnel in the ...
Social Class in Ancient Greece: Sparta and Athens
Oct 26, 2024 · Ancient Greek red-figure pottery. Credit: Zde / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons Athens. In Athens, after Solon’s reforms in the 6th century BC, people were generally assorted into four main social classes: the pentacosiomedimnoi, the hippeis, the zeugitae, and the thetes.At the bottom were slaves who had the fewest rights. Pentacosiomedimnoi: This was the highest class of citizens ...
Delos: The Greek Island Where Mythology and History Come Alive
May 16, 2024 · Archaeological sites on the island. There are extensive excavations on the island, revealing ruins that indicate Delos was once a holy sanctuary, dating back to a period even before Greek mythology named it as the birthplace of the Greek gods Apollo and his twin sister Artemis.. Amazingly, certain ruins of ancient stone huts on Delos date back to the 3rd millennium BC.
The Ancient Greek Ideals that Inspired American Independence
Jul 4, 2020 · The ideals that helped shape and develop the American democratic republic after 1776 owe a debt to the ancient civilization of Greece. All of America’s founding fathers had studied ancient Greek philosophy, drawing inspiration about morals, ethics and the sense of independence, all fundamental principles of a democratic society.
The Glorious History of the Ancient Greek City of Antioch
Oct 14, 2024 · Antioch on the Orontes, an ancient Greek city on the eastern side of the Orontes River, was one of the most glorious of all the Greek cities in the world. Home to hundreds of thousands of people in its golden age, it was known as “The Second Rome” and subsequently “the Cradle of Christianity” before it experienced so many cataclysmic ...
Ten Stunning Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Art
Jan 11, 2024 · The Winged Victory of Samothrace. Credit: Xin Sy /Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.0 There are countless masterpieces of ancient Greek art scattered in museums around the world, serving as a reminder that Greece is the cradle of Western Civilization.. These are works of unparalleled beauty, precious monuments of the world’s rich heritage that still mesmerize viewers and will continue to do so in ...