Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

The Milesian School was based in Miletus and produced three great thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient Greece.

Not many of us think about Greece's stoic philosophy during a visit to a doctor's office, but the two are well connected.

Students study Classical languages and literatures in addition to art history and archaeology; economic, political, social and intellectual history; and philosophy, religion and myth. Ancient Greek ...

Secrets of ancient Roman elites revealed in 1,500-year-old cookbook - It contains early versions of coq au vin, foie gras and pumpkin pie ...

When workers began excavating a new parking garage in Rome, they discovered what archeologists say was once Emperor Caligula's "pleasure gardens." Anderson Cooper reports on the find and the scholarly ...

It was, in many ways, meant to convey the governmental philosophy of the Roman Republic ... to channel and lay claim to the authority of ancient Rome: the Roman commune, the papacy, the Roman ...

This week we shall be considering the ancient philosophy of Stoicism ... they not deeply influenced Greek-speaking writers in the Roman Empire, whose works have survived. These include Musonius ...

The Herculaneum Papyri are a collection of ancient manuscripts discovered in the Roman city of Herculaneum, Italy, which was both destroyed and preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

where he discovered Seneca and Marcus Aurelius and the Stoics of ancient Rome. Philosophy, he says, became the father figure he’d been missing. Today, Mr. Robertson is a cognitive-behavioral ...

Lead pollution in ancient Rome was so high that it dropped the population’s IQ by around 3 points, if not more. Elites were exposed to lead through water pipes, cooking pots, bath tubs ...