When Heinrich Schliemann incorrectly identified in 1876 one of the shaft graves at Mycenae as the ""tomb of Agamemnon,"" he revived a myth first created by the eighth-century B.C. inhabitants of the ...

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The centerpiece of the exhibition “A Journey to Ancient Greece” at China’s Sanxingdui Museum is a life-size replica of the ...

A beautifully carved marble votive relief of Asklepios, the god of medicine, leaning on his staff welcomes us as we enter The Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander at the National Geographic Museum. The ...