Whether our Western political systems are true democracies or republics can be answered by examining ancient Greek philosophy ...

Scientists have recreated the elusive Egyptian blue, a pigment used by ancient Egyptian artists for thousands of years.

How do you keep calm in times of crisis? What do people need to be happy? Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius is often quoted ...

Very few figures of the ancient Greek world of medicine loom as large as Diocles of Carystus, even though he is not as known as he should be.

Over a long career, Skinner has sought to reclaim the idea of republican liberty for the modern age but his work also raises ...

How do you keep calm in times of crisis? What do people need to be happy? Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius is often quoted ...

Julia Domna can stake a claim to being one of the most influential women of the Roman Empire. Aside from perhaps the ...

From the tombs of pharaohs to Roman frescoes, Egyptian blue adorned everything from sacred artifacts to everyday pottery.

Obnoxious boors quickly leap to the superlative, perhaps aiming to be noticed. But this leads to absurdity and overkill.” ...

From Hercules and Archimedes to Roman conquest, Billy Cotsis traces the rise and fall of Greek colonies across the Western Mediterranean — with Syracuse as their final stronghold ...

At first blush, those words hardly seem the fodder for a commencement speech, but that’s exactly the manifesto that speaker ...