Tag: Antiquity
Alzheimer’s almost non-existent during Antiquity? Dementia is a modern-day disease
In ancient times, did Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of age-related dementia exist? This is a question that few thinkers contemporary with Aristotle or Hippocrates had to debate. As part…
Antiquity: Greece: Royal metropolis of the Macedonians restored
Antiquity Greece: Royal metropolis of the Macedonians restored The largely restored palace of Philip II of Macedon. photo © -/Ministry of Culture Athens/dpa It is the largest building in classical…
Gabrielzuchtriegel: “How can history be 99 percent about men?”
“How can history be 99 percent about men?” Pompeii was an ancient city, but only recently has it become clear how the people lived outside the villas, the craftsmen, the…
Misunderstanding between Rome and Munich over ancient statue – Munich
In the first minutes of Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia” film, the camera pans over the Acropolis, over the faces of statues, until it finally stops on the sculpture of a discus…
History at Christmas: Documentary trilogy about the “Big Three” of antiquity
Story at Christmas Documentary trilogy about the “Big Three” of antiquity Cleopatra is considered one of the strongest, most beautiful and mysterious women of antiquity. © The History Channel /…
Misunderstanding between Rome and Munich over ancient statue – Munich
In the first minutes of Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia” film, the camera pans over the Acropolis, over the faces of statues, until it finally stops on the sculpture of a discus…
Theater: It’s booming
In Ulrich Rasche’s production of “Agamemnon” at the Munich Residenztheater, the characters race against their fate, hopelessly. source site
Fake antiquity and crooked expert… Was the Lille Palace of Fine Arts scammed?
In mid-February 2012, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille presented to the public a sumptuous ancient Egyptian piece acquired a year earlier at an auction. It was an encaustic painting…
The Many Languages of the Hittites – Knowledge
Boğazköy-Ḫattuša is a treasury. Archaeologists have been excavating the capital of the Bronze Age Hittite Empire in Central Anatolia since 1906, and they are still coming across surprises. Now an…
Lecture in Kempten: People with disabilities in ancient times – Bavaria
Although, according to the Federal Statistical Office, almost one in ten people in Germany was severely disabled in 2021, people with disabilities are still often forgotten and excluded – even…