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Archaeologists Discover Mosaics of Two Fighting Cupids and a Mysterious Inscription at an Ancient Greek City Hall
The ruins of ancient temples, roads, a harbor and a cistern for collecting rainwater lie near Turkey’s western coast. Some ...
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Dolphins, the Demigods of Ancient Greece with the Mythical Attraction
Dolphins in ancient Greece were revered as messengers of the gods and held a divine dimension that has survived through the ...
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Unearthing the secrets of an ancient Greek city
The ancient ... one mosaic but at least two, spread across separate rooms dating back to the third century BCE. One that stood out depicted two fighting cupids, figures of Eros, the Greek god ...
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A Rare Mosaic Depicting Two Cupids in Combat and a Monumental Inscription Found in the Bouleuterion of the Ancient City of Teos
turned out to be part of at least two distinct mosaics located in separate rooms and dated to the 3rd century BC. One of them has particularly captured the attention of experts: it depicts two cupids ...
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KS2 Ancient Greece: 3. Structures, statues, poems and plays
We also created a lot of mosaics - the art of using tiny pieces of coloured glass or stone to create pictures on floors or walls. Stunning. You can find out a lot about Ancient Greece from the ...
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Ancient Greece
The official structure, stuffed with significant coins and Greek papyri ... on the bouleuterion building that once stood in the ancient city of Teos, located in present-day Turkey Sonja Anderson ...