The use of tamed elephants in human warfare dates... ...fteenth Century AD in what is now Vietnam. In the ancient Mediterranean, various peoples made use of war el...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/12/31/Hellenistic-War-Elephants-May-Have-Gone-into-Battle-Drunk/People get together and drink socially and then st... ...like beer pong, or in a pub sport like darts. In ancient Greece , among the wealthy classes, those games would inv... ...t parts of Italy (as the Etruscans played it) and Greece , too. The kottabos craze even resulted in industr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/02/21/Kottabos-the-Ancient-Greek-Drinking-Game/(Photo: J. Paul Getty Museum)Internet conspiracy theorists are buzzing with excitement about a grave sculpture dating back to about 100 BC, probably from the Greek island of Delos. It's been passed around various collect...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/02/08/Ancient-Greek-Sculpture-Shows-a-Woman-Using-a-Laptop-Computer/(Image: D. Weiss)What do you do if the dead won't stay dead? Greek settlers in the colony of Kamarina in Sicily may have addressed that problem in two graves uncovered by archaeologists in the 1980s. The bodies were weig...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/10/17/Archaeologists-Find-Ancient-Greek-Zombie-Graves/[http://youtu.be/R5atnExq60g] (YouTube link)Steve... ...g] (YouTube link)Steve Simons takes the images on ancient Greek vases and makes them move! Some of the vign... ..., or everyday life. This one, however, puts those ancient characters into a modern setting as they stage a... ...yboards for it. You can see...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/09/14/Ancient-Greek-Vase-Animation/Who says that Ancient Greeks don't have a sense of (lethal) humor? The...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/08/01/ancient-greek-winged-thunderbolt-sling-bullet-says-take-that/About this image by deviantART user asaifactor... ...recreation of the Star Wars story in the form of ancient
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/02/12/star-wars-greek-vase/Hero of Alexandria (10-70 CE) was a Greek engineer and mathematician who lived in Roman-ruled Egypt. He invented many gadgets and wrote at length about them. In his book Pneumatics, he described an early vending machi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/11/23/the-first-vending-machine-was-made-2000-years-ago/The examples of ancient Greco-Roman statuary that survive to this day may... ...ntury trying to revive the peacock glory that was Greece . He has dramatized his scholarly findings by crea... ...the same mineral and organic pigments used by the ancients : green from malachi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/20/the-vibrant-colors-of-ancient-statuary/The Parthenon in Athens, Greece is one of those places we all hope to see close u... ...before we die. It's an awe-inspiring monument of ancient Greece . The Parthenon is a ruin to this day. Some of it...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/23/the-architectural-triumph-of-the-parthenon/