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Cindy Levesque
Jul 10, 20234 min read
The Battle of Alesia
Gaius Julius Caesar had been made proconsul of Gaul and was in the midst of his attempts to conquer Gaul. While it began as a rather slow...
Menam Archaeology
Dec 30, 20226 min read
Happy New Year!
Wait, do I have the right date?! The celebration of the New year is not a modern phenomenon, but not all New Years celebrations were or...
Cindy Levesque
Dec 23, 20224 min read
Io Saturnalia!
Saturnalia is generally described as the Roman predecessor to Christmas, but that is not entirely correct. It is really hard to pin down...
Megan Kumorek
Dec 5, 20224 min read
The Discovery of Cleopatra’s Lost Tomb?
- Has new evidence finally revealed the biggest discovery of the 21st century? Cleopatra VII is perhaps one of the most recognized...
Cindy Levesque
Nov 21, 20225 min read
Augustus’ Altar of Peace and the propaganda which led to its construction
Rome began as a kingdom, ruled by kings, until the population became so enraged with the system that they expelled the last king and...
Cindy Levesque
Nov 14, 20224 min read
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts: the Laocoön group
The Trojan War On the shores near Troy, after a decade of war, one day the Greeks simply packed up and left. They loaded up on their...
Anna Sunneborn Gudnadottir
Oct 31, 20224 min read
The Boat Houses of Herculaneum: hiding from a horrible death.
Herculaneum is an ancient town located close to Naples, Italy, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius. It is an UNESCO World Heritage Site, and...
Cindy Levesque
Oct 24, 20224 min read
Murder near the Tiber: Tiberius P.I.
24 CE, Rome Emperor Tiberius took a long, hard look at the room. It was clear there had been a struggle. Furniture was overturned and...
Anna Sunneborn Gudnadottir
Oct 24, 20223 min read
The Museum of Ancient Eleutherna: a small museum that leaves a big impression
Here at MENAM Archaeology we want to highlight the small museums that carry a big impact, and the museum of ancient Eleutherna is the...
Linda Persson
Oct 24, 20224 min read
The Wandering Womb: The much entertaining, ideological female disease of ancient Greece
The Hippocratic Corpus is a series of medical treaties, dated around the second half of the 5th century BCE to the first half of the 4th...
Cindy Levesque
Oct 24, 20224 min read
The City Asklepieion
Asklepios is the Greek god of medicine and healing. The god was worshipped all over Greece and his sanctuaries, called Asklepieions,...
Linda Persson
Oct 24, 20225 min read
Women in Classical Greece: The Life of Athenian Women during the Classical Period.
When one thinks about ancient Greece, especially during the Classical period (c. 480-323 BCE), what immediately comes to mind are the...
Anna Sunneborn Gudnadottir
Oct 24, 20225 min read
Gynaecology in the Roman Empire: Soranus of Ephesus
Female anatomy and gynaecology have been poorly understood through-out history, but there are examples of thorough gynaecological text...
Christofer Ek
Oct 24, 20222 min read
Perseus and the Gorgon: A tale of parricide, love and dieties.
We have all heard stories about the flying horse Pegasus, and the terrifying gorgon, Medusa. But who was the person that actually...
Josefin Percival
Oct 24, 20223 min read
False doors: gateways to the other world
Without a doubt, any visitor to a museum with a larger Egyptian collection, or indeed to Egypt itself, has failed to notice the large...
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