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Hace 2 horas · The best insight of the everyday life of the Etruscans is found in Orvieto, in the heartland of Tuscany. Built high on a towering outcrop of volcanic stone, it was the last of the Etruscan hill towns to surrender to the conquering Romans. Under the winding, cobbled streets and sunbaked squares is an underground labyrinth of ancient caves and ...
Hace 2 horas · Mykonos Vase: Decorated pithos found on Mykonos, Greece, depicting one of the earliest known renditions of the Trojan Horse. Credit: Travelling Runes, CC-BY-SA-2.0 / Wikimedia The Trojans were the enemies of the Greeks in Homer’s famous Iliad. However, what do we really know about them? Do we even know what language the Trojans spoke? Is there […]
Hace 1 día · Armenian khachkars in the form of individual Armenian letters in Oshakan, Armenia. The Armenian alphabet (Armenian: Հայոց գրեր, Hayoc’ grer or Հայոց այբուբեն, Hayoc’ aybuben) or, more broadly, the Armenian script, is an alphabetic writing system developed for Armenian and occasionally used to write other languages.
Hace 1 día · ROME (AP) — Italy on Tuesday celebrated the return of around 600 antiquities from the U.S., including ancient bronze statues, gold coins, mosaics and manuscripts valued at 60 million euros
Hace 2 horas · It was so pervasive that the language used by Dodsley and Dodsley in their description of the duchess’s collection is the same in which Scott couched his description of the fictional Jonathan Oldbuck’s assemblage in The Antiquary, yet this has two very different effects, demonstrating how the real and imagined collector worked within similar parameters.
