I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

There were hints that the world may be quantum long before the development of quantum mechanics in 1925 – could we have come up with this revolutionary theory hundreds or even thousands of years ...

Over 120 years ago, sponge divers off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera unearthed one of the most enigmatic ...

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin offers a fresh account of the region as an incubator of ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The so-called Thucydides Trap has become a staple of foreign policy commentary over the past decade or so, regularly invoked to frame the escalating rivalry between the United ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

On Kea, a small Greek island just a short ferry ride from Athens, local traditions sit side by side with the latest in luxury ...

Ancient Greek history is full of the names of great minds: philosophers, scientists, statesmen, generals, historians and ...