
Age of Empires
A remastered version of the 1997 original
Does this graphical update of Age of Empires make the game feel as fresh as it did in 1997 or does it come off as a relic of a bygone age?

Sarcophagus of the Brothers
A large fragment of a marble Roman sarcophagus portrays the deceased as a generally fortunate man who had been happily married.

The Roman market in Naples
A site underneath San Lorenzo Maggiore
Underneath the church San Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples are the impressive remains of an ancient Roman macellum or market building.

Fighting for a fallen comrade
A stand from the Antikensammlung in Munich
A Greek, presumably Attic, stand dated to ca. 710 BC and currently in Munich depicts a common theme: two warriors fighting over a corpse.

A link to the past
The final resting place of Palinurus
In countries like Italy, the ancient world is everywhere. Take, for example, the Italian village of Palinuro, named after the Trojan Palinurus.

Mythos (2017)
The Greek myths retold by Stephen Fry
Mythos is a quirky, entertaining, and fairly superficial retelling of (some) ancient Greek myths. If you want more, you have to look elsewhere.

Evolution of Sumerian kingship
According to the Sumerian King List, kingship was already in the third millennium BC an ancient institution. But is this correct? Where and how did Sumerian kingship originate?

Marcus Aurelius and a mysterious embassy to China
International relations between the West and the Far East date back much further than usually thought and were originally much more benign than modern encounters.

Empathy and aspiration
Two depictions of the Trojan War
Two depictions of the sack of Troy in Greek art give us different perspectives on how the ancient Greeks used the myth of the Trojan War.

Graeco-Buddhist art
The Gandhara connection
The entanglement of Graeco-Roman and Indian Buddhist culture is well reflected in Gandharan art dating to the early centuries of our era.