Middle school is anything but fantastical. It’s the time in a child’s life when they’ve gained social awareness, but haven’t ...

British author J. R. R. Tolkien's tale of the fall of Númenor was inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Atlantis.

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

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

Journalist Jeanne Carstensen writes about the incident in the book "A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis" and talks with host Deepa Fernandes about ...

You'd be hard-pressed to find a culture that hasn't been influenced by Greek mythology in some way. Those epic tales of gods, heroes, and fantastical beasts have embedded themselves in our collective ...

From the Roman Empire to Russian Tsars and the Scottish Highlands, Richard McLauchlan's new book The Bagpipes: A Cultural History explores the mythology ... was none other than the Roman Emperor Nero.

To date, the extensive collection of ukiyo-e prints at the V&A (numbering over 25,000), have been studied through publications and exhibitions, however the illustrated book collection has been ...

Political intrigue, swoon-worthy romance, fierce heroes, mythical creatures—the books on this list have it all! But most notably, all of these stories were inspired by the legends and folktales that ...

Like many in America, Todd Martens grew up with parents who devoted the bulk of their vacation time to Disney’s theme parks. He now understands them as places to make sense of the world rather ...