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An ancient, sacred place The Melidoni Cave near Rethymno, Crete. Josho Brouwers. Read more
Water clocks became a common method of telling time in the ancient world. The so-called “Tower of Winds” in Athens, built in the early first century BC, is a marvel of engineering, containing both sun dials (about which more in a future post) and a water clock inside.
Ostentatious display and social power. I hope to write a number of pieces for Ancient World Magazine about women in pre-Roman Italy over the next year, so consider this the first of a much more ambitious project. This article deals with the evidence for the social power, or perhaps social presence, of women in Etruria.
From tomb 4, a well-built chamber tomb located to the northeast of the Minoan “villa” at Agia Triada, comes a remarkable limestone sarcophagus. The sarcophagus was unearthed at the beginning of the twentieth century and measures ca. 137 cm in length. It originally contained the remains of a high-status individual.
The panoply from a Mycenaean tomb at Dendra. When it comes to the history of warfare in the Late Bronze Age Aegean, an important find is the bronze panoply recovered by Swedish archaeologists from a tomb at Dendra in 1960. Josho Brouwers 26 June 2020. Matthew Lloyd.
The second most popular archaeological site in Greece, Knossos features impressive remains of a Bronze-Age Minoan “palace”. Josho Brouwers 6 September 2019. Josho Brouwers. If you want to explore Minoan Crete, it’s best to start big – and archaeological sites don’t get much bigger on Crete than the palace at Knossos.
A Trojan Horse from Mykonos. A large relief pithos (storage jar) from Mykonos features a rare early Greek depiction of the Wooden Horse used to capture Troy. Josho Brouwers 21 March 2018.
When the movie 300 was originally released in 2006, it caused quite a stir. Many people were impressed with the visuals and the movie is an entertaining testosterone-fuelled adventure set in a pseudo-historical ancient world. But the movie also has a jingoistic undertone and portrays the Persian Empire as a cesspool of cruelty and depravity.
Why it matters for the ancient world. The most studied aspect of the ancient world is its political history. Whether it’s a critical narrative of Roman history or a detailed look at the structure of the polis, politics are central. But how we understand politics and its ostensibly substantive equivalent, the state, is no less subjective than ...
In Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age, science journalist and science fiction author Annalee Newitz explores the life, death, and afterlife of four cities across the globe, and connects their histories to the challenges facing urban life in the twenty-first century.