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| Flowers: Legends, Myths, Symbols |  | In time, flowers generated thousands of legends and myths. These legends speak about their powers and magical virtues. No wonder flowers have their secret languages.
The rose is by far the flower most charged of symbolism and meaning. 25 Ma year old petrified fossils of roses (Rosa sp) were found. The oldest known human representation of a flower is that of a 7,000 years old rose carved on a silver medal found in a tomb from the Altay ... [read more >>] | | 02 April 2008, 17:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Early Christians |  | The early Christians included men and women, slaves and free people, rich and poor, Jews and Greeks.
The first Christians were Jews only. They inhabited the cities of Galilee (a region of Israel). They were poor people, like Jesus, most of them woodworkers. Some were friends of John the Baptist, a great fearless prophet. All these people spoke Aramaic, a Semitic language related to Hebrew, which by those times had already bee ... [read more >>] | | 01 April 2008, 16:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| How Modern Coins Appeared and the Richest Man of Antiquity |  | When this treasure was buried, during the fifth century BC, western Turkey formed the kingdom of Lydia and its kings had the fame of being the world's richest monarchs. This was especially true for the last Lydian king, Croesus.
Herodotus wrote about Lydia, Croesus and his inexpugnable capital, Sardes, said to be polished with gold and inside whose walls 20,000 to 50,000 persons had a luxury life. Obsessed with richness, ... [read more >>] | | 25 March 2008, 11:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A Historical Mystery: Alexander the Great's Tomb |  | He was one of the greatest military leaders of the Antiquity: he defeated the Persian Empire and created the largest empire of the ancient world in 13 years only. Alexander the Great had a tomb matching his personality in the city he founded at the mouth of the Nile River in 331 BC: Alexandria.
For almost 600 years, his tomb was a pilgrimage place for people coming from all over the world. At the beginning of the 4th century AD, its to ... [read more >>] | | 24 March 2008, 09:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A City of the Achilles' Warriors Discovered |  | If you've enjoyed "Troy", then you could be interested by the fact that archaeologists have discovered a possible place from where Troy's attackers set out. Daniel Pullen, an archaeologist at the Florida State University, first found the ruins in 2001 and recently presented his findings at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in January 2008.
The spectacularly preserved ancient city harbor b ... [read more >>] | | 20 March 2008, 04:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Oracle of Delphi: Apollo Talks |  | Placed in the center of Greece, north of the Gulf of Corinth, the sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi represented, for centuries, the most sought and famous oracle of the ancient world. The spiritual influence and the magic connotations the oracle caused in the mind of the people made the city located at the base of the Parnassos Mountain to be considered an "omphalos" (center of the world) of the antiquity.
The Greek mythology say ... [read more >>] | | 18 March 2008, 17:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Kalash: The People of the Nine Skies |  | These people are said to descend from the soldiers of Alexander the Great, stranded and established in foreign lands. Kalash people call the peak of the mountains with a word that does not require explanations: Olympus. The discovery in the '80s of Greek inscriptions in a former Kalash area in Afghanistan further came to strengthen this opinion.
Ancient Greeks traded with inhabitants of very remote areas, like Himalaya and Hindu-K ... [read more >>] | | 18 March 2008, 16:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| How to Make Papyrus |  | One of the most important discoveries made by man is the paper. Today, paper is so common that we do not even perceive its real value, but till getting to it, the human kind had to wait.
People have always felt the necessity of an efficient writing support to fix and preserve their knowledge, feelings, beliefs and, this way, to prevail over the unavoidable passing of the time. But, until the Arabs brought the method of paper ... [read more >>] | | 12 February 2008, 07:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 10 Things You Did not Know About Ancient Greeks |  | 1. Ancient Greek culture founded the western culture, with its modern traits of developing intellectual and scientific skills, a culture based on reasoning, investigation and experimentation. Ancient Greeks developed medicine, logics, aesthetics, metaphysics, mathematics and geometry, and this gave them a profound intellectual formation, allowed then to live more, made complex measurements that eased their trade and determined them to live ... [read more >>] | | 05 February 2008, 14:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Real Atlantis and Its Decline |  | Any myth contains a grain of truth. This is also the case of Atlantis, the country swallowed by the sea. The myth of the Atlantis, first mentioned by Plato 2400 years ago, talks about a real ancient civilization destroyed by the sea. The Atlantic Ocean got its name from Atlantis, as many people placed its location in the middle of this ocean. But historical data say this civilization could have been located in the Crete Island or in a near ... [read more >>] | | 15 January 2008, 16:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| People and Volcanoes |  | Vulcan was the Roman god of fire, the equivalent of Hephaistos in the Greek mythology. In ancient times people regarded volcanoes as gods, which were worshiped. Old Greeks believed the Earth was a floating disc over the surface of an ocean whose storms triggered earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Anaximander (611-547 BC) believed that cold and heat turned on the volcanic eruptions. Plato (428-347 BC) supposed there was an underground rive ... [read more >>] | | 17 December 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Is Santorini the Island of Atlantis? |  | Any myth contains a grain of truth. This is also the case of Atlantis, the country swallowed by the sea. The myth of the Atlantis, first mentioned by Plato 2400 years ago, is about a real ancient civilization destroyed by the sea. The Atlantic Ocean got its name from Atlantis, as many subsequent civilizations placed its location in the middle of this ocean. But historical data say this civilization could have been located in the Crete Isla ... [read more >>] | | 10 December 2007, 10:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 7 Things You Did not Know About Olympic Games |  | 1.The five Olympic circles represent the five continents: Africa, North and South America, Asia and Australia. They are connected to symbolize the sports friendship amongst all the people in the world.
2.The Olympic motto "citius, altius, fortius" means "faster, higher, stronger" in Latin.
3.The Olympic flame burned on the shrine of Zeus during the ancient Olympic games. Today a torch is fired in the sunlight an ... [read more >>] | | 07 December 2007, 08:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Secrets of Olympus |  | One of the richest and most varied histories in the world is that of Greece, along with that of Egypt and Japan... And many others, but for now we'd better stop listing. All we care now is about Greece...
Well, since we're on this subject, history really doesn't matter much, especially when many see in these tales of antiquity only 300 Spartans, beautiful women or treasures. But we don't have any of them... All we ha ... [read more >>] | | 07 September 2007, 09:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Tomb of a Trojan War Hero Found! |  | The civilization of the mighty ancient Greek warriors, called Mycenaean, that destroyed Troy disappeared 3,000 years ago. But now roadworks in southern Greece have dug out a rare Mycenaean grave thought to be much older than 3 millennia and containing important burial offerings including a gold chalice, announced the Greek Culture Ministry on Monday.
"It appeared to be the grave of a local military official and was the first time a ... [read more >>] | | 19 July 2007, 04:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Google News: Anywhere, Anytime! |  | The news service powered by the Mountain View company received some new goodies that surely make the product more attractive for the people from all around the world. For example, Google debuted a few weeks ago two new versions of Google News, allowing the users to view only a text flavor of the product or another edition based only on images. Today, Google releases News in Hindi in addition to the Greek version that was recently ... [read more >>] | | 09 July 2007, 02:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ancient Gold Treasure Found on Ulysses' Island |  | A surprising discovery has been made in the Greek island of Kefaloniá, located in the Ionian Sea, between Greece and Italy.
Archaeologists have dug a Roman-era theater and tomb, containing gold jewelry, pottery, and bronze offerings.
This the first finding of this type on an island in the Ionian Sea and it points out a previously unknown route between the two ancient cultures.
British archaeologists have recently proven that Ith ... [read more >>] | | 10 April 2007, 05:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| The Goddess of Marriage Found in Greek Ruins |  | Greek archaeologists have found a 2,200-year-old statue of the goddess Hera, inside the walls of a city, near Mount Olympus, the place where ancient Greeks believed their gods lived.
The headless marble statue was found during the 2006 diggings in the ruins of ancient Dion, some 53 miles (90 km) southwest of Thessaloniki, Greece's second city (after Athens) and the capital of Greek Macedonia. "The life-sized — by human dimens ... [read more >>] | | 02 March 2007, 07:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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