Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. 'In Pergamon, there is a great marble altar, 40 feet high, with remarkable statues - the entirety is surrounded by a Battle of the ...

Excavating a trench on Mount Lykaion, in an area which ancient Greek historians later called "the ash altar of Zeus," archaeologists found more than 50 drinking vessels, fragments of human and ...

Archaeologists have made a sinister discovery at the top of a Greek mountain, which might confirm one of the darkest legends of antiquity. Excavations this summer on Mount Lykaion, once worshipped ...

Those great Panhellenic events began more than 2,700 years ago, first in Olympia and later at Delphi, Isthmia and Nemea. And at Nemea, where the games began in 573 B.C., a Berkeley archaeologist ...

Probiotics helped great star corals fend off a deadly disease By Martin J. Kernan June 5, 2025. ... His team reported initial evidence of ritual activity at the ash altar of Zeus in 2007.

From at least the 16th century B.C. until just after the time of Alexander the Great, tens of thousands of animals were killed there in the god’s honor. Human presence at the site goes back more ...