For measuring liquids, ancient Greeks used the amphora quadrantal to measure volume. It was approximately the same as today’s cubic foot, around 26 liters. A full Dressel amphora of the 1st century BC ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis visited Rome’s central prison Thursday and met with dozens of inmates as he kept an Easter season appointment to spend Holy Thursday among the least fortunate ...

Greek vase from Attika, 550 – 520 BC. Credit: MatthiasKabel / CC BY-SA 3.0 A Greek amphora dating back to 550 B.C. has been withdrawn from sale at a London gallery after concerns surfaced about its ...

An amphora stamped with the name Meritaten dated back to the 18th Dynasty, from 1550 to 1292 B.C., since Meritaten Tasherit or Meritaten the Younger is known to be the eldest daughter of Akhenaten ...

They found some Khamun ground. Archaeologists have discovered a 3,400-year-old town that was possibly erected by King Tutankhamun’s father, Akhenaten — and harbored a wine jug stamped with the ...

Julian Bonnici, who runs Amphora Media, an investigative journalism platform, told MailOnline: 'There is an issue with tourism in Malta. But it's a bit of a Catch 22. 'Tourism is a massive ...

One particularly interesting find is a stamp on part of an amphora jar that has the name of Merytaton (also spelled Meritaten) on it. Merytaton was the daughter of the pharaoh Akhenaten (reign ...

The Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF), held for the fourth time in the Turkish resort city of the same name under the patronage of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and hosted by Foreign Minister Hakan ...

Lowe Amphora Shiraz 2023 ($65) is such a wine. And it comes with an unusual back story stretching back 8,000 years to an age when the ancients began storing their wines underground earthenware ...