
Real estate for the dead
Central Italian hut urns
During the Early Iron Age, the peoples of Central Italy sometimes placed the ashes of the dead in urns modelled after huts or houses.

The death penalty in Athens
In ancient Greece, serious crimes were punishable by death. What forms did the death penalty take in Classical Athens?

West pediment of the Temple of Aphaia
This picture, taken at the Munich Glyptothek, depicts the sculptures taken from the west pediment of the Temple of Aphaia on Aigina. It depicts a scene from the Trojan War familiar from Homer. The style of the sculpture here is “Archaic”, and on this basis it has been argued that the west pediment is older than the one on the eastern (front) side.

A tale of three cities
Zagora, Hypsele, and Andros
The eighth century BC was a time of great change in the Early Iron Age Aegean. One of these changes is exemplified by the reorganization of settlements on the Cycladic island of Andros.

Making ancient Greek vases
A look at red- and black-figure pottery
In this article, we examine the differences between red- and black-figure vases and go through the process of how they were made.

Aeneas treated by Iapyx
A fresco inspired by Virgil's Aeneid
A beautiful fresco from Pompeii depicts a scene straight from Virgil’s Aeneid: Aeneas being treated for a leg wound.

Satyrs, sileni, and fauns
Lustful Graeco-Roman spirits of nature
In Greek and Roman mythology, what is the difference between satyrs, sileni, and fauns, who all possessed animal characteristics?

The Edfu Connection
Ptolemaic seal impressions
The Allard Pierson and Royal Ontario Museums together possess a unique hoard of Hellenistic clay sealings from Edfu in Egypt.

A Trojan Horse from Mykonos
A large relief pithos (storage jar) from Mykonos features a rare early Greek depiction of the Wooden Horse used to capture Troy.

Battle of Polytopia
This turn-based strategy game for mobile devices offers a fun and streamlined way to build a little empire from scratch.