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The 3D printer is enabling ever more sophisticated forgeries to be sold as Greek or Roman collectibles An example of a fake Greek gold ring. Photograph: Jack Ogden An example of a fake Greek gold ring. Photograph: Jack Ogden Sun 16 May 2021 05.00 EDT There is a “pandemic” of fake gold jewellery, primarily ancient and medieval, according to a leading British historian, who warns that forgeries extend to more recent pieces that any one might pick up in a market. Dr Jack Ogden, a specialist consultant for museums, auction houses, dealers and collectors, estimates that half of the supposed an...

While not as well-known as that of the Achaemenid dynasty (550–330 BC), the second Persian empire ruled by the Sasanian dynasty (AD 224–642) is a pivotal but often overlooked period of ancient Western Asian art and archaeological history. Standing at the cusp of the ancient and medieval worlds, the Sasanian empire was the last great Iranian empire to rule over Western Asia before the coming of Islam, extending at its height in the seventh century from the Nile to the Oxus. Over the course of late antiquity, Sasanian art, architecture, and court culture created a new dominant aristocratic ...

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 06:05 UTC "We are survival machines-robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes." This is Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene. His selfish gene theory, he remarked in 1989, "has become textbook orthodoxy," because it is merely "a logical outgrowth of orthodox Neo-Darwinism, but expressed as a novel image." The image is misleading. Dawkins doesn't literally believe that genes are selfish entities with a will to replicate themselves. If they were, they would be like animating souls. In the Darwinian world where Dawkins lives, genes are no...

Sadigh Gallery Displays and Sells Beautiful Medical Instruments Covered in Bronze NEW YORK, NY, USA, March 11, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ -- An alluring collection of ancient medical instruments from the Greco-Roman world are now on display at New York’s Sadigh Gallery, which is also offering the bronze instruments for sale. The collection of medical instruments that are currently on display include spatulas, hooks, forceps, catheters, bone drills, and scalpels. All of these items were recently showcased in the popular Medical Device & Diagnostic Industry Magazine. According to Sadigh Gallery,...

Who Was Spartacus? Spartacus' story begins in Thrace, a region to the north of Greece, the west of Italy, and to the south of the Celtic tribes.  His exact beginnings are up for debate: Plutarch states that he was of a nomadic tribe, while writer Florus claims he was a mercenary.  However, what Plutarch, Florus, and only a half a handful of other relatively reliable classical sources agree on is that Spartacus somehow left Thrace and became part of the Roman army .  Whether he was taken captive into their service or offered himself as a willing volunteer, Spartacus served in the legions f...