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WINE PLAYED SUCH a central role in Greek and Roman culture, economics, and religion that it is no surprise that Dionysus, the god of wine...

Feb. 4 is Take Your Child to the Library Day. What is the importance of taking kids to the library and what are Connecticut libraries offering?

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   ALONGSIDE THE GREAT Seleucid and Ptolemaic empires that emerged from the breakup of Alexander the Great’s

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly

The Byzantine cup-shaped coin profiled here is an aspron trachy minted at Constantinople under Manuel I Comnenus (ruled 1143-1180 CE).

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   The Incas had rivers full of gold and mountains full of silver, and they used gold and silver for art and for

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   AT THE BEGINNING of recorded history, the Iberian Peninsula was inhabited by a variety of peoples. Iberians,

By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek ..... Ask a collector of ancient coins if they have ever bought a coin from an overseas vendor, and you will more likely than

Ancient Coin Expert Mike Markowitz surveys the world's biggest ancient coins

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   This reptile, as an image of divinity and of nature, is figured both in its natural shape, and under a variety