Deipnosophistae is a work by Athenaeus, written around 200 CE, about well-read people philosophizing at the dinner table and enjoying good food and drink. The title is a combination of two words: ...

Ancient Greek measurement unit: Protocorinthian Cotyle, 650-625 BC. Ancient Agora Museum at Athens, Credit: Zde CC BY-SA 4.0 The ancient Greeks developed sophisticated units of measurement ranging ...

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Instead, their ancestry was predominantly linked to ancient Sicilian and Greek populations, with a growing North African component, highlighting a remarkable cultural continuity despite genetic ...