Amidst Tamil Nadu Rupee Symbol Row, A Look At The Evolution Of Indian Currency
The Bank of Hindostan, General Bank of Bengal and Bengal Bank became the first banks in India to issue paper currency in the ...
Greek Reporter19d
Parthian Battery: The Ancient Mystery of the 2,000-Year-Old Energy Source
The Parthian Battery, also known as the Baghdad Battery, is one of the most fascinating inventions of ancient times ... his independence and began minting his own coins. Tradition has it that the ...
Greek Reporter16h
From Ancient Greek Carob Seeds to Modern Carats: The Origins of a Precious Measurement
The carob seed which became the modern carats shows how ancient Greeks devised ingenious ways to ensure fairness in trade.
ABC News6d
An ancient bronze griffin head is returned to Greece from New York in a major repatriation move
has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece -- New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago ...
Smithsonian Magazine8d
Ancient Greece
Greece's culture minister officially accepted the artifact, which was likely stolen from a museum in Olympia in the 1930s Ella Jeffries Cultures throughout history have put lead to use for wacky ...
Reuters1mon
Rare frescoes unearthed in Pompeii shed light on ancient rituals
Frieze depicts followers of ancient Greek god Dionysus Fresco dates to 40–30 BC Latest dig began in early 2023 ROME, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare, nearly life ...
BBC29d
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Song | Horrible Histories
The statue was lost and destroyed at the end of the 6th century AD, but we know about it because it was shown on a whole lot of ancient Greek coins. Cool! The largest Egyptian pyramid ever was ...
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Apollo gold ring with 'healing serpent' found in 2,000-year-old tomb in Greece
A monumental tomb found near Corinth has revealed several burials, along with artifacts reflecting its later use as a healing ...
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Apotheosis: How the Romans Made Men Into Gods
While the “frivolous East” may have been happy to venerate men as though they were gods, the serious men of the Roman ...
BBC27d
Detectorist finds hoard of Roman silver coins
Four of the coins date to the reign of Marcus Aurelius, who was played by Richard Harris in the first Gladiator film, with the earliest dating from AD166 (above) A hoard of 16 silver Roman coins ...
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An ancient bronze griffin head is returned to Greece from New York in a major repatriation move
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The head of a griffin, that was repatriated from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is displayed at ...
The Christian Post29d
American tourist discovers rare ancient Jewish coin from Hasmonean period in Shiloh, Samaria
Juan, an American tourist from California, discovered a rare coin from the Second Jewish Temple era at Shiloh, an ancient archaeological site in Samaria, which is internationally recognized as the ...