Regarded by historians with either denial or disdain, these women warriors have always had to fight for recognition ...
Diotima, the female philosopher in Plato's Symposium, has puzzled historians for centuries with her theory of love and beauty ...
One hundred and fifty male couples, known as Thebes’ Sacred Band, or ancient Greece’s army of lovers, was wiped out in a ...
Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined two arguments for vegetarianism ...
A new subway system is on its way to being showcased to passengers in Thessaloniki, Greece. The project unveiled thousands of ...
The researchers methodically compared the designs they found on ancient cylinder seals with known proto-cuneiform signs. The ...
Arslan Kaya is a free-standing spire of volcanic rock about 52 feet tall, featuring carvings thought to be around 2,600 years ...
The Greek iron ages took place within this period. But since no documents are available, historians have only been able to ...
Scientists have discovered traces of hallucinogens in a small vessel depicting an Egyptian deity that may have been used in ...
In 1177BC, Amurapi, the last king of Ugarit in modern-day Syria, wrote in cuneiform on baked clay to the Hittite emperor ...
The discovery of clay cylinders in Syria could completely reshape the history of alphabetic writing. Researchers suggest that ...
Two college freshmen conspire to simultaneously dump their exes in Jordan Weiss’s unremarkable debut feature. By Jeannette Catsoulis The political turmoil of Peru in the 1990s serves as the ...