Greek Reporter6h
Herodotus and the Controversy of When Jerusalem was Destroyed
Was Jerusalem destroyed in 587 or 607 BCE? Often overlooked in this controversy is some evidence from Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian.
Jurassic fossil from China rewrites history of bird evolution
Scientists have unearthed in southeastern China the fossil of a quail-sized bird that lived about 150 million years ago ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
Experts Say They’ve Found a Portrait of a Mysterious Businessman Hidden Beneath a Titian Masterpiece
When the Renaissance artist painted his famous "Ecce Homo" around 1570, he covered up a portrait of an "an unknown ...
Most animals have their own version of tree rings – here’s how we biologists use them to help species thrive
Similarly, most living things produce records of their own existence in layered body tissues – often in the form of daily or ...
Greek Reporter1d
The Scholars Who Deciphered the Ancient Greek Script Linear B
If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be a mystery.