A Memorable Trip to Egypt: Cairo, Alexandria and a Nile Cruise – March 2023
Impressions and images from a 12-day trip to Egypt, with visits to museums and magnificent ancient sites including pyramids, temples and tombs. Read more
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Exhibition | Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth and Reality
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford's current exhibition Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth & Reality includes artworks inspired by the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, archaeological notes and illustrations, and an array of finds from the original and ongoing excavations at the site. Read more
Travels in the Mediterranean
My husband and I finally took the Mediterranean cruise we originally had planned for 2020. It is humbling to stand where people stood so many years ago, and to reflect on how similar they were to us. Read more
Travels in Greece: The Sacred Sites
When one visits the famous ancient sites of Greece, one soon realizes that most of these were built at places sacred to one or more of the ancient Greek gods—Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Athena and Poseidon among them. It seems the gods were a real presence to the ancient Greeks... They seem to have believed they could honor or interact with the gods most effectively at select locations, chosen by the… Read more
Everlasting Glory in Athens
"But that which brought most delightful adornment to Athens, and the greatest amazement to the rest of mankind; that which alone now testifies for Hellas that her ancient power and splendor, of which so much is told, was no idle fiction,—I mean his construction of sacred edifice…(Athens) should apply her abundance to such works as, by their completion, will bring her everlasting glory" Read more