Articles on the ancient world

This page lists all of the articles that have been published on this website in reverse chronological order, so with the newest material listed first. This also includes most of the articles originally published on Ancient World Magazine (2017-2022), which are preserved here for posterity.

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Sources of disinformation

Sources of disinformation

Bad reconstructions of Aegean warriors

12 min read

Mycenaean chariots

Mycenaean chariots

A video produced by Invicta History

7 min read

Greek warfare and Homer

Greek warfare and Homer

28 min read

The griffin family of Lefkandi

The griffin family of Lefkandi

A twelfth-century-BC alabastron from Xeropolis-Lefkandi

13 min read

A rogue general and the sack of Rome

A rogue general and the sack of Rome

11 min read

A god in three dimensions

A god in three dimensions

12 min read

Misinterpreting the evidence?

Misinterpreting the evidence?

A fragment of a fresco from Pylos

8 min read

Encased in bronze

Encased in bronze

The panoply from a Mycenaean tomb at Dendra

25 min read

Context matters

Context matters

Tackling a bad-faith argument against current iconoclasm

Josho Brouwers, Matthew Lloyd, and Joshua R. Hall

6 min read

A “landscape of memory”

A “landscape of memory”

Knossos in the Early Iron Age

14 min read

Statues are not mere symbols

Statues are not mere symbols

Material culture is meaningfully constituted

5 min read

Troy just keeps on fallin’

Troy just keeps on fallin’

Depictions of two sackings of Troy on the pediments of the Temple of Aphaia on Aegina

13 min read