ἀνθρώποισι πᾶσι μέτεστι γινώσκειν ἑωυτοὺς καὶ σωφρονεῖν.
Dual find gives glimpse into how the area near Rosh Ha’Ayin changed due to drought and the spread of Christianity. Continue reading “Archeological dig in central Israel uncovers Byzantine church and 2700-year-old farm”
Byzantine-era coins and unique menorah medallion found by Hebrew University archaeologists at site abutting Southern Wall. Continue reading “Gold treasure trove unearthed at base of Temple Mount, Israel”
The discovery of a Greek dedication to a church, or possibly a monastery, from 1,500 years ago is leading archaeologists to think they may have found the long-lost ruins of Ashdod-Yam, a Byzantine city known in the classical sources as Azotos Paralios. Continue reading “Archaeologists May Have Found Long-lost Byzantine City Ashdod-Yam (Azotos Paralios)”
Here we present the ‘Abstract‘ of the corresponding paper by Roy J King, Julie Di Cristofaro, Anastasia Kouvatsi, Costas Triantaphyllidis, Walter Scheidel, Natalie M Myres, Alice A Lin, Alexandre Eissautier, Michael Mitchell, Didier Binder, Ornella Semino, Andrea Novelletto, Peter A Underhill and Jacques Chiaroni, and, as always in NovoScriptorium, a link for it, for anyone more interested in the subject. Continue reading “The coming of the Greeks to Provence and Corsica: Y-chromosome models of archaic Greek colonization of the western Mediterranean”
The Tribe of Dan, one of the 12 “Israelite tribes,” may have started as no such thing. New archaeological evidence suggests that the Danites originated with mercenaries hired from the Aegean and Syria by the Egyptian overlords of Canaan to keep order. Continue reading “3,000-year-old archaeological finds at Tel Dan suggest that the Danites were Aegean soldiers. Samson the Greek?”
(NovoScriptorium: Whether true or not, information like this is at least interesting, because it is not a funny Greek that makes the claim but a native of the country)
Continue reading “Professor from Chile claims ancient Greeks colonized his country!”
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