Old European culture

This is a very strange object.  Hydria. Kerameikos,  Athens, Archaeological Museum in Athens . 660-580 BC.  Why is it strange? Well, the ves...

Attic red-figure lekythos, c. 500–450 BC, showing Charon welcoming a soul into his boat. Charon was the boatman that took souls across the ...

The Babylonian Talmud (Nedarim 50a) relates that one of the greatest sages, Rabbi ’Akkiva (2nd century AD), who started out as a poor, ignor...

This is a drawing of a relief from Persepolis , depicting "The King killing Angra Mainyu", the main adversary of Ahura Mazda, the ...

Saint Tsar Lazar fresco from Curtea de Arges Monastery, Romania. Pic from the paper: " Medieval name and ethnicity: Serbs and Vlachs ...