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Ancient medicines. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Blessed is the believer - on the roots of modern medicine

Why did the Hippocratic doctors use a dangerous method of purification for centuries to cure diseases?
The rare sight. Photo by Emil Eljam, Antiquities Authority

Has a tomb of an "escort woman" (the Taira) from 2,300 years ago been discovered in Jerusalem?

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A grave in which the remains of a woman were discovered with a rare mirror next to her opens an extraordinary window into customs that were 'imported' to Israel with the Hellenistic occupation * It seems that the person buried was a young woman of Greek origin, who accompanied a senior member of the Hellenistic army or government on his journey through Israel
A statue of the Greek philosopher Aristotle. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Am Yisrael sings 24: Even in ancient times, Jewish music was influenced by Greek music

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It has already been mentioned several times the brave connection forged between Greek and Hellenistic philosophy and music - the Pythagorean school that attributed a supreme moral value to music, the Platonic school that insisted on the relationship between music and human nature and moral condition, and similarly the Aristotelian school. These philosophies penetrated Judea during the days of Roman rule
The Olympic flag during the Vancouver Winter Games, 2010. From Wikipedia

Olympics: the story of five rings

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Visitors look at a fragment of the 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, believed to be the earliest surviving mechanical computing device. The photo was taken in a museum in Athens, Greece. Photo: shutterstock

Four amazing astronomical discoveries from ancient Greece

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Female figures competing in the Olympic Games in ancient Greece on an ancient urn. Photo: Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology

Gendered Paralympic Games

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The Pleiades cluster, from a digital sky survey. Photo: Credit: NASA/ESA/AURA/Caltech

Astronomers have revealed the date a poem was written in ancient Greece

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The moon hides the sun during a solar eclipse and what you see is only a small part of the sun's halo. Illustration: shutterstock

2,600 years since the first successful scientific prediction - the solar eclipse of Thales that caused a truce

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Spotlight - the archaeological time tunnel: XNUMXD software allows archaeologists to reconstruct ancient buildings / Eitan Crane

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female dancers A painting on an urn originating in ancient Greece

The XNUMXth muscle song - dancing with virgins

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The cover of the book "Against the Gods"

The spirits of the Greeks and the role of the dice - first chapter in the book Against the Gods

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The Persian messengers. From Wikipedia

How Persian chauvinism saved Western culture

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Greek urn with a painting of runners in the Panathletic Games, 530 BC. From Wikipedia

The muscles song XNUMX - to the places, the high school, get out!

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The discus thrower from ancient Greece, as it appears on an item in the Louvre Museum in Paris

The Muscle Song XNUMX - The relationship of Maccabean literature to the Jerusalem gymnasium, or pornography and geography

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A theater site in the city of Tzur. From Wikipedia

The Muscle Song XNUMXth - Olympics in Tyre

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discus thrower

The XNUMXth Muscle Song - Did they throw a discus in Jerusalem? or "bursting disc"

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A Greek stamp issued a little late (in honor of the 1896 Olympic Games)

The XNUMXth muscle song - this is not just a drawing

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The remains of the gymnasium in Epidaurus. From Wikimedia Commons

The Muscle Song XNUMX - The Jerusalem Gymnasium (B) - Its location and "price"

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discus thrower

The Song of the Muscles Chapter XNUMX - Gymnasium in Jerusalem, isn't it?! (Part a')

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A gold coin minted by Ptolemy V and discovered in the north of the country in 2010 depicts a queen - possibly Arsinoe II, who married her brother Ptolemy II. Photo: Antiquities Authority

A very rare gold coin about 2200 years old was discovered in excavations in the north

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Diagram of the Antikythera mechanism

Antikythera mechanism: the computer is two thousand years old this year, and why the industrial revolution didn't start in ancient Greece

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Organizational culture in Xenophon's army

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Astronomers: The first marathon was in August - and the runner probably died of fever

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The Great Library of Alexandria - an institution from the days of the ancient world was re-inaugurated after 1,600 years

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New evidence for the existence of the Ahshorosh canal

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