The striking, nearly 5-foot tall Dipylon Amphora, from approximately 700 BC, is a masterpiece of the art of Ancient Greek pottery. Its exquisite painted exterior shows a funeral scene with ...
Researchers find 50 cave pearls in Jerusalem’s Joweizeh Spring Tunnel. Pottery fragments and plaster remains embedded in 14 pearls. Artefacts linked to Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods.
In ancient Greece, amphorae were commonly used for carrying or storing liquids and grains like wine, oil, or cereal. A narrow neck and a large, oval body were easily moved with handles on each side.
At least 10 buildings and multiple artifacts from the 5th or 6th century have been uncovered in southern Israel in what authorities say is an ancient Byzantine monastery thousands of years old, ...
Athens of ancient Greece, the birthplace of democracy, had an interesting system called ostrakismos, or ostracism. It was a system that allowed certain dangerous individuals to be expelled from the ...
The ruins of an ancient Greek monument — filled with gold and ... further archaeological remains as well as pottery were found that date to the eighth century B.C. More excavations will be ...