Ancient World Magazine

Ancient World Magazine

We publish well-researched and engaging material about the ancient world, created by academically-trained archaeologists and ancient historians who are passionate about the past.

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The “Treasury of Atreus”

The “Treasury of Atreus”

A Late Bronze Age tomb near Mycenae

6 min read

Early Rome

Early Rome

Podcast podcast #13

25 November 2021

Few but good

Few but good

The eigenvector centrality and its meaning

12 min read

Troilus and Cressida

Troilus and Cressida

A medieval love story

4 min read

Studies in Bronze Age Aegean Archaeology

Studies in Bronze Age Aegean Archaeology

A book celebrating the career of John G. Younger

11 min read

A face from the past

A face from the past

A plaster head from Mycenae

4 min read

Early Rome to 290 BC

Early Rome to 290 BC

A review of a book by Guy Bradley

Parrish Elizabeth Wright

15 min read

Encounter with a sea-monster

Encounter with a sea-monster

Hercules at Troy

4 min read

Challenging Zeus

Challenging Zeus

The monstrous Typhon

6 min read

In memoriam

In memoriam

On the loss of one of Hercules’ fingers

2 min read

Medusa at the edge of Empire

Medusa at the edge of Empire

10 min read

The Empress Messalina

The Empress Messalina

Teenage nymphomaniac or smooth operator?

Peta Greenfield and Fiona Radford

17 min read