The Lyrid meteor has peaked in late April for thousands of years. It begins in little bursts on the eve of April 16 and peaks ...

Spring in the northern hemisphere brings with it the promise for the Lyrids, the first good meteor shower of the season.

Eric Shimelonis plays a kemenche: a stringed instrument which experts believe is derived from the ancient Greek lyre. (image courtesy of Rebecca Sheir) Kemenche (kemençe in Turkish, کمانچه ...

Other pieces from Ur’s royal tombs include the ornate hammered gold, lapis lazuli and carnelian headdress (opposite) of an Early Dynastic queen named Puabi and a lyre adorned with the golden ...

A contemporary named Pausanias described the sound in his Guide to Greece as "very like the twang of a broken lyre-string or a broken harp-string." The site quickly became one of the ancient world ...

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Seef District. @greekstreetbahrain (1718 0666). Named after the ancient lyre, Lyra is one of the newest additions to the Mediterranean-Greek restaurants in Bahrain that draws inspiration from its ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

Phryne was a notable ancient Greek hetaira, or courtesan, of Athens, who is remembered throughout the millennia for her ...

China war inevitable? Perhaps that isn’t the lesson leaders should be taking from the ‘History of the Peloponnesian War.’ ...

The 2000-year-old Antikythera mechanism may have been a kind of astronomical calculator, but researchers are unsure whether it would have worked without jamming ...

Archaeologists have made two extraordinary discoveries in the Italian town of Agrigento on Sicily's southwest coast. During ...