In ancient Greek mythology ... and back legs of a lion combined with the head, wings, and talons of an eagle. Griffin protomes, such as the fine examples in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, are ...

a tail that ended in the head of a serpent. Greeks were fond of expressing narrative in their vase painting and they appropriated Near Eastern creatures like the Chimaera and the siren and altered ...

A recent excavation in Megiddo, Israel, unearthed the earliest example of a particular type of cranial surgery in the Ancient Near East -- and ... a hole cut in your head," Kalisher said.

A clay head that dates back ... symbols or attributes — such as horns, crescents, bulls — found on figures and visual representations throughout the ancient Near East, that would identify ...

Mark has been involved in numerous projects on the ancient Near East, application of complex ... and historian of cuneiform texts, and head of the Digital Pasts Lab, a hub for the computational ...

With the help of workshops and adventure sheets, children can sift through the past of ancient Near East, sorting the ordinary from the extraordinary in the lives of the people of Egypt and ...

With their comically long necks, horn ... pointed head ornament, and prolibytherium had large, flat, wing-like growths, like shields on its head. Scientists have discovered the ancient remains ...

across the subfields of Ancient and Medieval Near Eastern studies Map the theoretical implications of hermeneutical digital approaches for knowledge production in the study of ancient societies ...