antiquity

Nobel committee member Steve Sem-Sandberg said Carson is “an author for our time,” unique in her skill at connecting contemporary ways of living through antiquity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

Earlier this week, the prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry and literature were announced in Stockholm, with the latter going to Canadian poet Anne Carson on Thursday for her modern twists on Greek mythology and antiquity.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Located in the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua, Italy, the sumptuously painted, illusionistic chamber depicts the era’s civic society and figures from classical antiquity and myth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

"Almost everything from antiquity has been destroyed," Seiler said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Cyrene’s other principal local export was silphion, a plant that is now extinct but whose products had a universe of uses in antiquity.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

In Europe and elsewhere, co-ordinated, multi-national police and customs operations take place regularly, seizing large numbers of stolen antiquities and arresting some of the traffickers.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Tareq Abu Dayyeh sells craftwork, souvenirs and antiquities in Gaza.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

The stolen antiquities follow other types of bounty the RSF has ransacked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

“Since Covid, business has been falling and individual tourists stopped coming,” said Zakariah Mashriqi, 47, who runs a family-owned antiquities shop in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

A few months later, the Getty’s curator of antiquities, Marion True, wrote a long, glowing account of the museum’s acquisition for the art journal The Burlington Magazine.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell