Depictions of the bee appear very early in the development of coinage in ancient Greece, which may have started in Ephesus.

The Greek goddess Chimera, was a monstrous composition of disparate parts that embodied an ancient fear of females.

Corresponding to an area comprising of today’s Iraq, part of Syria, and Turkey, the heartland of Mesopotamia stretched between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. It encompassed different peoples and ...