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How Did Ancient Greeks Spent Their Leisure Time?

While people in Ancient Athens had a remarkable work ethic, they placed equal value on leisure, seeing it as time for ...
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The 10 Most Fearful Pirates of Ancient Greece

The Mediterranean Sea used to be filled with pirates who terrorized not only Ancient Greece but Rome as well. Long before the Pirates of the Caribbean, the Seas of Europe were filled with pirates ...

Earliest hand-held wooden tools found in Greece date back 430,000 years

An international team has discovered the earliest known hand-held wooden tools used by humans. A study jointly led by Professor Katerina Harvati from the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and ...

Scientists recover the oldest wooden tools from a site in Greece

NEW YORK (AP) — Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date ...

The Ancient Towers That Inspired the Story of the Tower of Babel

Ziggurats were mudbrick temples designed to bridge heaven and earth, anchoring religion, power, and architecture in the ancient Near East for thousands of years.

Ioanna and Areti Spanomarkou discuss filmmaking, music, Greek heritage, and the digital age

Award-winning composers, producers, filmmakers Ioanna and Areti Spanomarkou their inspirations in music and filmmaking, as ...
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Researchers Just Identified This 430,000-Year-Old Stick From Greece As The Oldest Wooden Tool Ever Found

This prehistoric piece of alder found at the Marathousa 1 archaeological site in Greece might be the earliest wooden tool ...