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October 12, 2015

Organic geometry: the structure of Homer's Iliad

  The Iliad is a Greek epic poem of 15,693 lines composed sometime...

June 14, 2015

Yeavering: how halls of kings rose from the dust

    The great wooden hall was the hub of ancient Germanic...

Hands of Fate
June 11, 2015

The weird lottery of fate unravelled

  According to Greek mythology the fate of each and every individual is determined...

June 4, 2015

Words for king in Sanskrit, Greek and Old English

    The common word for king is राजा (rājā) in Sanskrit, βασιλευς (basileus)...

June 3, 2015

Immortals and their ambrosia

    In Greek literature the gods are known as the ἄμβροτοι...

May 31, 2015

The wings of man's mind

  What ancient Greek and Sanskrit can tell us about our thinking...

May 28, 2015

Maiden Dawn

  Both in the Vedic hymns and in the Homeric poems dawn...

May 25, 2015

The poisoned twigs

  Ancient Germanic smiths used a technique known as pattern welding, by which...