Christopher Nolan's next movie, The Odyssey, is the perfect excuse to finally read one of the greatest literary ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

A charred Herculaneum scroll, buried by the AD 79 Vesuvius eruption, was identified via X-ray as part of Philodemus’ On Vices ...

The Spartans raised their children to be tough and stoic servants of the state. Boys were sent to train as soldiers from a ...

For over two thousand years, successive societies forged the civilization of ancient Greece. From the early societies of the ...

Peisistratus was an ancient Greek statesman who ruled Athens as a tyrant but laid the foundation for the city's later ...