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Minerva Magazine 201

April 20, 2023
  • The rise of royalty in prehistoric Europe
  • Exploring interpretations of the Fayum mummy portraits
  • Wooden wonders at Herculaneum
  • Drinking and decadence in the ancient Persian and Greek worlds
  • Touring Siena’s medieval monuments
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    Minerva Magazine 200

    February 16, 2023
  • The artists behind Maya masterpieces
  • Art and identity in the Mediterranean
  • Unravelling the myths and archaeology of Minoan Knossos (available on The Past 23 February)
  • Exploring palatial pleasures in Parma
  • Touring the ancient theatres of Epirus
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    Minerva Magazine 199

    December 16, 2022
  • Painting Pompeii: how Roman houses were decorated
  • Silk Road oases: exploring ancient Uzbekistan
  • Chariot kings: the evolving image of the pharaoh
  • Shock and awe: the imaginative work of Henry Fuseli
  • Persia and beyond: the mythical legend of Alexander the Great in the East
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    Minerva Magazine 198

    October 20, 2022
  • Prayer and poetry: Enheduanna and the women of Mesopotamia
  • Circles of stone: Japan’s prehistoric monuments
  • Vindelev hoard: power and gold before the Vikings
  • Classical currents: ancient Greece and Rome in early US history
  • Deciphering the Rosetta Stone
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    Minerva Magazine 197

    August 23, 2022
  • Revealing the riches of China’s Bronze Age kingdoms
  • Mithras: mysteries of a Roman cult
  • Ancient Egypt and modern art (out 24 August)
  • The elusive cave writing of Lascaux
  • From remarkable medieval women to famous discoveries
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    Minerva Magazine 196

    June 23, 2022
  • The art and power of golden manuscripts
  • The birth of Gothic: cathedral-building in medieval Europe
  • Ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Feminine Power: She who must be obeyed
  • Naples: restoring an ancient necropolis
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    Minerva Magazine 195

    April 21, 2022
  • Spiro: a climate crisis in the Mississippian world
  • Hisham’s Palace: mosaics in the desert
  • Olympia: monuments to victory (available 27 April on The Past)
  • The Museo Barracco in Rome
  • Sir John Soane’s architectural drawings
  • Exploring ‘trench art’
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    Minerva Magazine 194

    February 17, 2022
  • The rise of Christianity in the Caucasus
  • The sun in the world of Stonehenge
  • Childhood in the Roman Empire
  • Law and order: an ancient legal code from Crete
  • A conversation with Egyptologist Salima Ikram
  • Investigating Chiragan’s Roman statues
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    Minerva Magazine 193

    December 16, 2021
  • Luxor temple: where kings became gods
  • Art and ancestors in ancient Peru
  • Eternal beauty: what did kallos mean to the ancient Greeks?
  • Domitian: portraying imperial power
  • John Craxton and the art of ancient Greece
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    Minerva Magazine 191

    August 19, 2021
  • Megalithic Malta
  • Nefertiti
  • Rome’s hidden mosaics
  • The Battle of Salamis: a clash that shaped the Western world
  • St Francis of Assisi: examining an unusual maiolica plate
  • History of Egyptology, from 1822 to 1922
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    Minerva Magazine 189

    April 14, 2021
  • Thomas Becket: Canterbury Tales
  • The lost city of al-Qata’i‘
  • Persian Splendours: 5,000 years of Iranian culture
  • Brixia: The Roman city and its bronzes
  • Rosetta Stone and Thomas Young’s attempts to decipher it
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    Minerva Magazine 187

    December 17, 2020
  • Queens of the Nile: royal wives & goddesses
  • Transformation at the heart of the Inca empire
  • Herculaneum: a grand Roman house trapped in time
  • Face to face with the Greek dead
  • Legacy of the Etruscans in Campania
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    Minerva Magazine 186

    November 9, 2020
  • Ravenna: mosaics and majesty in an imperial city
  • Tantra: the rise of a spiritual rebellion
  • City of myths: how and why Thebes was forgotten
  • In the beginning: ancient Chinese cosmology
  • Where eagles dare: wealth, worship, and conquest in the Aztec capital

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