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Crossroads Roundup: Remarkable Finds from Ancient Greece and an Update on the Stonehenge Controversy

Our favorite stories on art, archaeology, folklore, and more from this past week.

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Aug 05, 2024
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Welcome to the Crossroads Roundup! This is our weekly roundup of news related to history, art, archaeology, and anything else that our readers might enjoy. While many of our essays are free, the Crossroads Roundup is for paid subscribers only. If you haven’t already, you can sign up below to gain access to the full archive, the Patron Podcast, and the Crossroads Roundup:

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This week, researchers announced several prominent finds from the world of Ancient Greece.

© Notion Archaeological Project, University of Michigan

The first of these Greek discoveries that we’ll be examining is a pot of buried treasure found under a home in the ancient Greek city of Notion (which lies in what is now Turkey). The above gold coins are examples of Persian darics, which were likely minted in Sardis, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) northeast of Notion. As you can see in the above image, darics included depictions of kneeling archers, which are thought to represent Darius the Great.

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