A new exhibition is spotlighting the women who have long been sidelined in histories of the Roman Empire—from mothers and weavers to entrepreneurs and influential tavern owners ...

An ancient vase discovered on Mykonos redrew the history of the Trojan War, which has captivated the imaginations of people ...

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 ...

Ancient Athens was a vibrant and dynamic society, famous for producing great works of art, philosophy, and culture.

There’s nothing new about our modern obsession with playing and watching sports – they were popular in ancient Greek and ...

When we think about animal sacrifice, ancient societies such as the Greeks come to mind. But why did they ritually slaughter animals? What did this do for their society?

In ancient Greek religion and culture, Athena, daughter of Zeus, reigns as the patron goddess of heroic endeavors, ...

Due to deliberate misrepresentation of facts and false information, White people had deceived many ignorant and learned people as well in the world that they had originated every good thing that ...

Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial ... in one of the sagas we looked at supports the idea that unborn children (at least high-status ones) could already be inscribed into complex ...

Ioannis Kolettis, later Greek Prime Minister, formalised this longing in his political program—the Μεγάλη Ιδέα—a revivalist ...

While traveling the Greek world in the 2nd century CE, the geographer Pausanias visited the statue of Zeus at Olympia. The ...