Ruins of the agora at Troy / UNESCO World Heritage Centre By Dr. Jim Marks / 11.30.2012...
Architecture
Architecture records how people have imagined space and constructed communities across time. Temples, homes, civic buildings, and modern skylines reveal changing relationships between society and power.
Interior of the tholos tomb at the Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, 13th century BCE / Wikimedia Commons...
So-called Treasury (Khazneh), Petra (Jordan), 2nd century C.E. (photo: Colin Tsoi) By Dr. Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis / 08.08.2015...
One of the east storage magazines in the palace at Malia / Photo by Ian Swindale, MinoanCrete.com...
The lavish grave circles at Mycenae contained wealth unlike anything previously seen on the Greek mainland, illuminating...
Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh / 03.04.2017 Brewminate Editor-in-Chief Kaymakli A large room several floors down into...
The “Little Palace” at Knossos, Crete / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Jeremy B. Rutter Professor Emeritus of...
By Dr. Jeremy B. RutterProfessor Emeritus of Classical StudiesSherman Fairchild Professor Emeritus in the HumanitiesDartmouth College Common...
Grand Tourists traveled to places such as Rome and Greece to study the ancient ruins and masterpieces...
Ruins of the Church of St. Paul in Pisidian Antioch / Wikimedia Commons 02.22.2017 Introduction Antioch of...
From modest hilltop settlements to wealthy warrior burials, Middle Helladic archaeology reveals how mainland Greece changed before...
The Battle of Grunwald (July 15, 1410), by Jan Matejko, 1878 / National Museum in Warsaw, Poland...
Gate at Porta Romana / Wikimedia Commons Necropolises NOTE: The Isola Sacra necropolis will be covered in...
Reconstructed illustration of the Palace of Knossos, Crete / Wikimedia Commons By Lisa M. Lane / 10.09.2016...
Pont du Gard, in Vers-Pont-du-Gard, Gard department, South France. The Pont du Gard is the most famous...
The Mithraeum of the Seven Gates. / Photograph: Bill Storage. Mithraism By Alison Griffith Mithraism is the...
Reconstruction painting of the Acropolis and Areus Pagus in Athens, by Leo von Klenze / Neue Pinakothek...
Horrea Epagathiana, Ostia Antica / Wikimedia Commons Introduction Impression of the unloading of a ship. / Misurare...
The history of fire stations dates back all the way to ancient Egypt. The first fire brigade in...
The Bel Temple, Aleppo, 2004. Courtesy of and © Ross Burns. All rights reserved An archaeologist explains...
Roman gate at Porta Roman / Wikimedia Commons Introduction In the late-republican period a wall was built...
Christian buildings, Christian evidence in buildings, and destruction of buildings by Christians in ancient Ostia. Buildings Oratorio...
11.17.2015 Description: The Temple of Trajan, also called Trajaneum, is one of the most spectacular structures in...
Roman Serapeum in Alexandria, Egypt / Photo by Jerzga Franklin, Pinterest Edited by Matthew A. McIntosh /...
Tomb (of the Funeral Bed?), 470-60 B.C.E., found in the necropolis of Tarquinia (Villa Giulia, Rome) Author...
The ancient Roman city of Ostia was in antiquity situated at the mouth of the river Tiber,...
Stupa 3, 1st c., Sanchi, India (photo: Nagarjun Kandukuru) By Dr. Karen Shelby / 08.09.2015 Assistant Professor of Art History Baruch...
Introduction Horrea for grain – light blue; dolia defossa – dark blue; other store buildings – yellow;...
From a teensy skeleton to a dog’s tombstone, a tour through the most evocative death-related objects in...
Statue base of Hadrian set in the Theatre of Dionysus on the south slope of the Acropolis,...