The Asklepieion, an ancient healing center in a city once known as Pergamon and today Bergama, Turkiye. Image Source: Travel & Beyond The Asklepieion was the sanctuary and healing complex of Asklepios (Latin Aesculapius), the god of medicine. It was located just outside the city of Pergamon on the plain below the acropolis. It functioned as something between a temple, a spa, a sanatorium, and a teaching hospital. Along with the sanctuaries at Epidauros, the cult's "mother" s

"having received also from Hermes an adamantine sickle he (Perseus) flew to the ocean and caught the Gorgons asleep. They were Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa. Now Medusa alone was mortal; for that reason Perseus was sent to fetch her head. But the Gorgons had heads twined about with the scales of dragons, and great tusks like swine's, and brazen hands, and golden wings, by which they flew; and they turned to stone such as beheld them. So Perseus stood over them as they slept, an

Today's 2.1g coin of interest carries an unusual legend. The third line on the obverse, in confident thuluth script, runs the formula "khallada Allāhu mulkahā " : خَلَّدَ اللهُ مُلْكَهَا : "may God perpetuate her kingdom." The alif (ا) added at the end of the final word: ملكه becomes ملكها. The feminine suffix is not a mistake of the engraver. It is acknowledgment that the sovereign whose name fills the field - Sāti Beg Khān - is a woman. The coin was struck at Awnīk in 739 A

This little 2.27g coin from Patrae was made quickly, in quantity, at a moment, around the middle 30s BCE, on the edge of the war that would end the Roman Republic. Achaia, Patrae; circa 35 BCE, AR Triobol or Hemidrachm (15mm, 2.27g, 6h), Damasias, son of Agesilaus, magistrate. (15 or 16 of these coins in ACSearch) Obv: Head of Aphrodite (with features of Cleopatra?), right, wearing stephane, earringand necklace, her hair bound in a bun at the back Rev: ΔA/MACIAC in two lines