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Travel is, in many ways, the opposite of my eating disorder. My eating disorder was about control, rigidity, sameness. Travel ...
Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...
but the oracle at Delphi was the most famous. It was referred to as the navel of the world. So, literally the centre of the ancient universe. People would travel from all over Greece to consult the ...
The Ancient Greeks may have had it better than we do in 2025. Imagine a world where leaders sought answers from a priestess instead of “experts.” From the 8th century BCE to the 4th century CE, the ...
From Mozart and Dostoyevsky to Jackson Pollock — two books reveal the fundamental and sometimes surprising intertwining of ...
The mass poisoning of the city of Kirrha, south of Delphi, around 595 BC, stands out in ancient Greece for its chilling scale ...
The Odeon of Herod Atticus recently opened the 70th season of the annual Athens Epidaurus Festival, a cherished annual ...
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Most of my summers in Greece were spent in Thessaloniki, where both of my parents grew up. It's the second-biggest city in the country after Athens and dates back to 316 BC. Ancient ruins and ...
What did the melodies that accompanied rituals, theaters, or banquets in ancient Greece and Rome more than two thousand years ago actually sound like? A mathematical analysis of all the compositions ...
Found at the Dodona oracle site in Epirus, more than 4,000 lead tablets reveal everyday concerns, from love and illness to theft and freedom, at Greece’s oldest oracle. In the quiet hills of Epirus in ...
Greece's Delphi oracle is the inspiration behind an immersive art installation by data artist Charles Sandison that's aimed at encouraging a deeper understanding of history and a greater ...