ReligionForBreakfast on MSN5 小时
The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism
Greece is very far away from the heartland of early Buddhism in India and parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. But thanks to Alexander the Great, Hellenistic and Buddhist cultures came into contact in ...
New Republic6 小时
Alex Karp’s War for the West
In “The Technological Republic,” the Palantir CEO exhorts Silicon Valley to embrace techno-militarism in the service of ...
Archaeologists Found a 2,000-Year-Old Cult Site Hidden Beneath a Subterranean River
The Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Salerno and Avellino revealed in a Facebook post that, in ...
Greek Reporter2 天
Ancient Greek Coin Has Become the Seal of Afghanistan’s Central Bank
The seal of Afghanistan's Bank depicts an image from an ancient Greek coin and is overlaid on every banknote of the Central ...
Archaeology3 天
On the Origin of the Pork Taboo
So did tensions between Judeans and their Hellenistic rulers, including the Ptolemaic kings of Egypt and the leaders of the Seleucid Empire based in today’s Iraq. Archaeologist Yonatan Adler of ...
Greek Reporter5 天
The Time When Gaza Was a Thriving Greek City
How many of us knew that the city of Gaza, the war-torn Palestinian enclave, has a Greek past that defined the history of the ...
Greek City Times6 天
Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia
Pella reached its zenith during the 4th century BCE under the rule of Philip II and his son Alexander the Great. Alexander ...