A number of people have been reading a public domain English translation of The Conspiracy of Catiline that is on this site. If you don't know what it's all about, ... Read More

Anubis was an enduring ancient Egyptian god of the dead who is shown with the head of a jackal or a dog -- an animal that would have been found ... Read More

The Indus Civilization is one of the oldest societies we know of, located in the greater Indus Valley of Pakistan and India, and its mature phase is dated between ... Read More

Flint tools from the Neolithic era have been found in Iran. According to Cultural Heritage News Agency's article First Samples of Prehistoric Flint Stones Discovered in Iran the 9000-year old ... Read More

Do you know the story of Persephone and the pomegranate -- the mythological explanation for winter? Here's Demeter's story. Over on the Rogue Classicist's site, David Meadows mentions ... Read More

Have you ever heard this story? If so would you please post any helpful details on the forum thread Immortality Ship."I am attempting to find a story from Greek mythology ... Read More

The Winter Solstice is the time of year when the night is longest and the day shortest. Anyone who has lived more than a year has witnessed the fact that ... Read More

The stoic philosopher Epictetus said: "Reckon the days in which you have not been angry. I used to be angry every day; now every other day; then every third and ... Read More

An article in Purdue's student paper, Pottery shard may refer to Biblical tale, says that a pottery sherd from around 950 B.C. uses a name similar to Goliath, the Philistine ... Read More

There are lots of books online, but most of them are old, public domain ones. The University of California Press is changing that. It has made available recent books in ... Read More

On this day in Ancient History, Diocletian, the ruler responsible for dividing up the ruling of the Roman empire, was made Emperor of Rome and the future Emperor Maximinus Daia ... Read More

The Greek god Hermes is now best known by his Roman name, Mercury, and is thought of as a messenger with a winged cap and winged heels. Although eventually he ... Read More

In an article for Slate, College Makeover: Wrestling with Greco-Roman ideas, Anthony Grafton of Princeton describes in endearing, reality-TV-based terms, the lucky life of freshmen in his charge, who spend their ... Read More

A postage sized map on a piece of pottery known as the Soleto Map, which depicts the region of Apulia in Italy's boot heel, dates from 500 B.C. Archaeologists ... Read More

According to Psychiatrist Shay parallels modern war with classics, " Kirk Freudenburg, chair of the Classics Department, said the psychiatrist [Dr. Jonathan Shay] is making classical writings of the 8th century ... Read More

Why is Antigone considered a 'tragedy' and not a 'drama'? Has the distinction to do with technical terms not shown or explained on the web?Read the answer to this email ... Read More

If you plan to go see the new Harry Potter movie, you might want to review your Latin magic spells. Mad-eye Moody demonstrates some of the forbidden ones on a ... Read More

In the third century B.C. an Egyptian priest named Manetho listed 30 royal dynastic houses of ancient Egypt, followed by the Persian rulers. Manetho's work is gone, but an epitome ... Read More

Born on this day in the year A.D. 9, Vespasian was the last of the four emperors in the year of four emperors and the first of the short-lived Flavian ... Read More

Continuing the ongoing references to articles on ancient food, the Naples Daily News (free online subscription, but registration is required) reports on the antiquity of truffles, an item that is ... Read More

One of the reasons to play Hangman is to learn the spelling of the words. The conventional spelling we use for Egyptian names is very different from the spelling we ... Read More

Someone else was looking for stories involving Zeus. There are several stories on this site that involve Zeus, but most refer to him under his Roman name, Jupiter. See Juno ... Read More

Someone was looking for information on the death of Achilles and the birth of Hephaestus (Vulcan to the Romans). Achilles was wounded in the one spot on his body that ... Read More

Besides its uses in food, cosmetics, and as half of the oil and strigil cleaning technique of the ancient world, I wsn't really familiar with the uses of olive oil. ... Read More

The Queen of Sheba will be the first legend covered in the series starting Wednesday in Michael Woods' PBS Myths and Heroes. The Queen of Sheba is sometimes portrayed ... Read More

The requests for reading suggestions I receive are usually from people beginning to study ancient history, but for those who are now more advanced, here's a reading list from one ... Read More

This week in ancient history was the time for the Plebeian Games. It was also a week for Roman emperors or future emperors to be born and die. This Day ... Read More

The Guardian reports on a large group of human remains from Old Kingdom Egypt, in Tim Radford's article Mysterious case of death on the Nile, 4,000 years ago. What's ... Read More

At a recent British Museum conference, Spanish Egyptologist Dr. Maria Rosa Guasch presented the findings of liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry on the red wine King Tut took with him ... Read More

My apologies to those of you who wound up on Sumer when you wanted Classical Greece. I updated both pages but linked both pages to the newly updated Sumer page. ... Read More

If you already know what the Odyssey is all about, this minute-long synopsis should amuse you: The Odyssey By Homer Ultra-Condensed by Samuel Stoddard and David J. ParkerBook I of the Odyssey ... Read More

Yesterday I suggested that it might be possible to learn a minimum of Latin suitable for the purposes of the forum poster who only has a couple of months to ... Read More

Jason will be one of the four legends covered in the coming Myths and Heroes series on PBS. How well do you know the story of Jason and Medea? Find ... Read More

People's Daily Online reports on the recent discovery of a tiny (2.25 m X 2 X 1.3 meters high) 1500-year old Buddhist temple, known as the Tuopulukedun Temple, on ... Read More

In a series called In Search of Myths and Heroes, Historian Michael Woods will explore four myths for PBS and U.S. audiences beginning on Wednesday November 16. PBS provides a ... Read More

Despite the Idiots' and Dummies' guides, learning a language thoroughly is not something most people can do in a couple of weeks or even a couple of months. The best ... Read More

A review of current economic policy from the Mises Institute may be of interest for its analysis of ancient economies -- even if the agenda bothers you: "Ancient Greece also imposed ... Read More

An Arkansas Traveler article on inflation explains that the process of debasing crrency has been going on for a long time, as has forgery. The aticle also mentions that Caesar ... Read More

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that a 10th century B.C. Israeli alphabet is expected to add fuel to a debate between Bible skeptics and proponents.Pittsburgh archeologist discovers ancient alphabet in IsraelEarly ... Read More

For civilization to develop, the land must be fertile enough to support an expanding population. Not only did early populations need a soil rich in nutrients, but also water. ... Read More

The Classical Age of Greece begins with the Persian War (490-479 B.C.) and ends with the death of Alexander the Great (323 B.C.). Besides war and conquest, in this period ... Read More

Photographer Aschwin Prein gives us a walking tour of the ancient Greek classical site of Olympia, the original location of the Olympic Games. Aschwin's photos include the Temples of Zeus and Hera, ... Read More

Alternative Religions Guide Jennifer Emick has blogged an article about the earliest known Christian church in Israel that was uncovered by prisoners at Megiddo Prison in the Galilee. The prisoners were ... Read More

Here's a new central location for the Greek mythology pages on this site. Its layout is based on the Greek mythology newsletter format, so each of the four pages has ... Read More

This picture is probably obsolete. The colosseum has lost another wall chunk, as Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst reports: Rome Colosseum Damaged.

The string of Celtic goddesses ends and is followed by some little known Roman gods, including one for grain plants up to the nodes.God of the Day

Christianity Today has an article on the castes of India and on terms used in discussing Hindu culture: Hindu, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Vedas, Vedanta, Brahman, Mukti, Bhakti, and Guru.

The following email is from someone who is pretty close to an absolute beginner in the area of Ancient History (or Ancient Greece). He wants to know what to read ... Read More

Shortly after Armenia became the first Christian country, St. Mesrops Mashtots gave Armenia an alphabet, according the Harvard Gazette's Armenia's Remarkable Alphabet.Armenia's conversion to Christianity came in the early 4th ... Read More

This week's gods and goddesses of the day are Celtic: Morrigan, Manannan mac Lir, Badb and more.God of the Day

Whether you prefer to say Rome fell or simply morphed into the Byzantine Empire and medieval feudalism, economic policies of the emperors had a heavy impact on the lives of ... Read More

The Home News Tribune, while describing a new technique for varicose veins, says that ancient varicose veins have been noticed on a Greek stone relief: Reinventing Vein Repair.