Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their ...

The mystery of the Riace Bronzes, two ancient Greek statues remains strong since the day they were recovered off the coast of ...

Written by the former chief historian of NASA, the book examines the evolution of our cosmic understanding—from early civilizations to the present day ...

One of the wonders of the ancient world, the Temple of Artemis stood for millennia, wearing natural and manmade disasters. A ...

An ancient object that Jessica Lamont uses in her Yale classes may not appear menacing, but in Greek antiquity it was used for malevolent purposes.

Discover the Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek marvel that challenges our understanding of historical technology and ...

When was running invented? Runing is an instinctive movement that evolved as a survival skill for early humans. Read on to ...

Ancient civilizations have always fascinated historians and the public. Because of how different the modern world is, we tend ...

The latest round of strikes has raised fears of a broader regional conflict. By Cassandra Vinograd and Eve Sampson A decades-long shadow war between Israel and Iran is increasingly taking place in ...

New food inventions and innovations are made all the time, but the roots of your favorite sauces stretch back farther than ...

Eventually, nine muses were identified, covering every branch of the arts, in the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s introduction to Theogony, his epic poem about mythical stories and characters (circa ...

Icke, 37, is one of Britain’s hottest directors, acclaimed for reinvigorating the classics in productions including another ancient Greek tragedy, “Oresteia,” and the Shakespeare adaptation “Player ...