Deipnosophistae by Athenaeus, a work written around 200 CE about well-read people philosophizing and enjoying good food and ...

Rising from the fires of the French Revolution, one young man reached the top of European politics – not through seizing ...

The Shatby Necropolis is the resting place of Alexandria's first Greek settlers and the the oldest surviving site in the Egyptian city.

There will be two ritual meals, or Seders, designed to imitate an ancient Roman banquet. No leavened bread ... a series of disasters afflict the Egyptian people. But the dictator is unmoved.

Muslims have already had their festive fesikh banquet on the first or second ... kahk we eat today is really similar to what the ancient Egyptians knew,” she said. “Nor is it important to ...

The alternative medicine system is thought to date back at least two thousand years. Here, gold shows up as swarna bhasma, a ...

At one end was a raised platform, and there were circular indentations in the ground where large terra-cotta pots, or dolia, would have been set in an ancient ... and the banquet room looking ...

And centuries after even the conversion of Constantine, we find endowments to liturgies, to mystery cults, to different Egyptian and ... of hospitals for ancient society was really the temple ...

She is the director of operations here at Aigai, the ancient royal capital of Macedonia ... Myrto Papadopoulos A restored mosaic floor inside a banquet room of the palace at Aigai.