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Three Formerly Enslaved Artists Created Beautiful Pottery 150 Years Ago, and Now Their Wares Are Coveted Around the World
In 1856, the Reverend John McKamie Wilson Jr., a Presbyterian minister and entrepreneur interested in clay science, relocated ...
Greek Reporter3d
The Rise and Fall of the Mycenaeans, the First Advanced Civilization of Mainland Greece
The Mycenaean civilization was the first advanced culture of mainland Greece, shaping the foundations of Greek identity, myth, and language.
Greek Reporter6d
Zatrikion: The Ancient Greek Board Game of Strategy and Leisure
The unique ancient Greek board game Zatrikion discovered at the Knossos Palace shows that the ancients had a penchant for ...
Archaeology breakthrough as Greek alphabet 'centuries older' than previously thought
The Greek alphabet, believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is now undergoing a major reevaluation thanks to ...
Greek City Times13d
Greek Alphabet May Be Centuries Older Than Previously Believed, Says Researcher
New research led by Associate Professor Willemijn Waal suggests that the Greek alphabet may have originated centuries earlier than traditionally believed. Using carbon dating and archaeological ...
The Daily Princetonian21d
Relationships, Resistance, and Resilience: Roberto Lugo’s Orange and Black Exhibition
Since its installation on Feb. 15, educators, elementary school students, and college students have been inspired by the collection’s ability to blend traditional Greek pottery with modern ...
The Australian21d
Controversy over censor’s green light for sex-themed comic book
The review panel identified the illustration as a reference to a work of Ancient Greek pottery dated 400BC. Lesley-Anne Ey, an associate professor in educational psychology and child protection at ...
Smithsonian Magazine23d
Was Talos, the Bronze Automaton Who Guarded the Island of Crete in Greek Myth, an Early Example of Artificial Intelligence?
Entities magically endowed with life by the gods are not a rarity in Greek myth. Consider, for example, Galatea, a statue of a woman sculpted by Pygmalion as art, then brought to life by Aphrodite.