greek influence

Above Beneath the waters of Egypt’s Aboukir Bay, archaeologists found the remains of a small tholos, a Greek round temple. Among the fallen Doric columns were ritual artefacts and statuettes, including this 3rd to 2nd century BC Isis Aphrodite anasyromene.

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New discoveries from the lost cities of the Nile delta

Underwater archaeologists have taken to the waters of Egypt’s Aboukir Bay once more, revealing remarkable new finds from a temple at Thonis-Heracleion. Franck Goddio told Lucia Marchini about the latest results from this year’s excavation at the sunken city.

1. Warrior Pit 1, 3rd century BC, Lintong, The figure wears the high hair knot and torso armour typical of higher ranking foot soldiers. Photograph: Lukas Nickel.

The Past

Professor Lukas Nickel on the Terracotta Army’s cultural connections

While studying the Terracotta Warriors in the tomb of China’s first emperor, Professor Lukas Nickel of the University of Vienna came to some interesting conclusions about links between China and the Hellenistic World, as he explains to Dalu Jones