When we think about animal sacrifice, ancient societies such as the Greeks come to mind. But why did they ritually slaughter ...

Alexander the Great and Cleopatra are to be brought to life in the latest History Channel mega-doc from HBO’s The Invisible Pilot indie Ample. Three-part premium docu-drama Ancient Empires is ...

Verdi (“The Irishman”); and Los Angeles-based LBI Entertainment. Scorsese’s ancient shipwreck doc will be shot in Sicilian terrestrial and underwater locations comprising the Strait of ...

All ancient texts are read in English translation. Studies Greek history from 800 B.C. (the rise of the city-state) to 323 B.C. (the death of Alexander the Great). Emphasizes the development of ...

One of the most famous figures from the ancient world, Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430 AD), once wrote that when he was a boy he was obsessed with playing sports: "I liked to play ball as a ...

In 1849 the German classicist Eduard Gerhard made the assertion, for the first time in modern Western history, that all the ancient goddesses derived from a single prehistoric mother goddess.

EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic has boarded French doc series Rise and Fall of the Mayas. The Disney-owned factual network is among three new pre-buyers attached to the series, which was originally ...

“Ancient Aliens” investigates the highly contested theory that extraterrestrials may even predate humans on Earth, arriving long before any UFO encounters of the modern era. Per ...

Convey and his co-workers wondered if the ancient moss might be able to grow again. “It was just kite-flying,” he said of his idea to a reporter from the New York Times. The researchers took a ...