In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

In his cozy workshop behind his D.C. home, contemporary kumiko craftsman David Gootnick, a Craft Show featured artist, uses the raw material of his practice: a five-foot-long, two-inch-thick plank of ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

Excavated from a nearly 2,000-year-old villa in Valencia, Spain, the broken-up murals once formed fresco decor ...

Intellectual life in the modern West traces its origins to the ancient Greeks and Romans. However, by the launch of the First ...

The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.

Designed by the French-Greek firm Stene Alexopoulos Agency, this small apartment in Paris blends the brutality of concrete ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Learn fundamentals of neoclassical architecture, including the history behind this 18th-century style and famous ...

Pearl divers in Kuwait used to make music with a complex rhythmic pattern, but when Kuwait banned pearl diving in 1955, the music stopped with it. That captured the imagination of Ghazi Faisal ...

Is our current period of efflorescence temporary, as were all the earlier ones? This question lends special interest to Josiah Ober’s search for the preconditions of the first known efflorescence, in ...

In ancient Greece, education wasn’t limited to the mind — it included the body as well. Physical fitness and scholarly pursuits went hand-in-hand, a principle reflected in the number of gymnasiums ...