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Ancient Greek ship at Poseidonia in Magna Graecia, southern Italy

Magna Graecia: The Ancient Greeks Who Lived In ...

Magna Graecia, meaning "Great(er) Greece," was the network of Greek colonies that transformed southern Italy and Sicily from the eighth century BC. Cities like Syracuse, Taras, Kroton, and Sybaris grew...

Magna Graecia: The Ancient Greeks Who Lived In ...

Magna Graecia, meaning "Great(er) Greece," was the network of Greek colonies that transformed southern Italy and Sicily from the eighth century BC. Cities like Syracuse, Taras, Kroton, and Sybaris grew...

Ancient copper-zinc alloy ingot glowing in warm lamplight

Orichalcum: The Lost Metal

Orichalcum appears exactly twice in Plato's writings, both times describing the walls of a temple in a city that almost certainly never existed. That has not stopped two thousand years...

Orichalcum: The Lost Metal

Orichalcum appears exactly twice in Plato's writings, both times describing the walls of a temple in a city that almost certainly never existed. That has not stopped two thousand years...

Ancient metalworkers pouring molten bronze into a stone mould in a workshop

Ancient Metalworking: How Copper, Bronze, and I...

The history of metalworking is the history of civilisation. Every empire, every army, every trade route traces back to the moment someone discovered that certain rocks, heated to the right...

Ancient Metalworking: How Copper, Bronze, and I...

The history of metalworking is the history of civilisation. Every empire, every army, every trade route traces back to the moment someone discovered that certain rocks, heated to the right...

Bronze smith pouring molten metal from a crucible into a sword mould in a Late Bronze Age workshop

Bronze: The Alloy That Named an Era

Bronze changed everything. A simple alloy of copper and tin created the first long-distance trade networks, the first specialist artisan classes, and the first international arms races in human history....

Bronze: The Alloy That Named an Era

Bronze changed everything. A simple alloy of copper and tin created the first long-distance trade networks, the first specialist artisan classes, and the first international arms races in human history....