Did you know that you can have fun being a little archaeologist?
There are many things that can give you and your kids endless hours of fun - one of these are the science kits. Speaking of science kits, there are many categories available from volcanoes to digging up fossils.
The cultural impact of Alexandria can only be paralleled with the one of modern London, Paris or New York. And these are the five reasons Egypt's Alexandria was the ancient Capital of Culture.
Visit the ancient city of Aigai, the palace of Philip II, its necropolises with the magnificent royal tombs and its museum which hosts some of Greece's most cherished treasures through the site's innovative website, and discover another way to connect time and space.
The new Museum of the Boeotian Thebes in Greece now constitutes the main cultural hub of the town and a significant tourist attraction, playing an important role in the growth both of Thebes and the whole of Boeotia. Archaeologist and local Antiquities Director Dr. Alexandra Charami explains how treasures from the city of Oedipus and its surrounding area are displayed to highlight more than meets the eye.
Sound experts recently debunked the myth of ancient Greek theaters' exceptional acoustics after performing the first on-site experiments in three different sites. The researchers, from the Eindhoven University of Technology (EUT) in the Netherlands, used wireless measuring tools they designed themselves and took sound measurements from the Theatre of Epidaurus, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens and the theater of Argos. They found that sound transmission is good but not as exceptional as claimed in popular literature and tour guides.
Little is known about the people living in the small islands of central Aegean we now called the Cyclades c. 4.000 years ago. Beginning their life in small -and at times fortified- settlements, sailing the sea during their short lifetime, buried in humble graves upon their death, and with no written records to reveal their way of thinking, these islanders' thoughts, hopes, and dreams remain a mystery. Only silent witness to this lost world's "mind" is the enormous number of marble statues from the Islands, whose minimal design links the ancient to the modern and is considered as the beginning of European art.
