Cradle of Civilizations, Trypillia

The theory that the original Yin-Yang symbol described the change of a pole’s shadow length during a year corresponds well with the meaning of...

According to Wikipedia, "the name Baghdad is pre-Islamic, and its origin is disputed. The site where the city of Baghdad developed has been populated...

Below are several quotes from the works of Robert Graves: "It is not known what sort of a dance...

A true masterpiece of Scythian metalwork, an extraordinary Gold Comb crested with fighting Scythians was discovered in Solokha Royal Kurgan in Zaporizhzhia region of...

“Sing, Goddess, of the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles,” is the opening line of the Iliad. Achilles was the warrior who became the very symbol...

The two birds on the plaque were identified as cranes by Gerhard Friedrich Müller (although others see in them herons which is hard to...

Homer in the Iliad wrote that "Daedalus in Cnossos once contrived; A dancing-floor for fair-haired Ariadne" and scholars are confident that it was the...

"I believe with many others that the Proto-Indo-European homeland was located in the steppes north of the Black and Caspian Seas in what is...

"The Parthians, in whose hands the empire of the east now is, having divided the world, as it were, with the Romans, were originally exiles...

The frieze vessel was found in the same chamber as the priestess. In the first scene, one lion-headed and one eagle-headed griffins tear a...