The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

Tourists were jolted awake as a 6.1-magnitude earthquake hit near Crete. Environmental scientist Deborah R. Coen explains why ...

The incredible story of Alexander the Great and his conquest of the known world is brought to life with animated maps, images from Osprey Publishing and Total War game footage. In Part 1, we look at ...

I recently played in Austin, Texas. It was in conjunction with a food festival, because Austin, Texas, is a food festival.” Thurston Moore said that to Pitchfork in 2017, and, yes, he was talking ...

Although the curatorial parallels can feel strained, the underlying message is unequivocal: cross-cultural exchanges foster ...

Archaeologists discovered a silver amulet containing an 18-line text showing the oldest known devotion to Christianity north ...

In 1986, a sixth-century Byzantine copper-alloy bucket was found in the famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in ...

This episode explores how Roman rulers transitioned from political leaders to divine figures worshipped across the empire. While earlier episodes focused on Roman and Greek religious roots, we now ...

Emperor Constantine I convened the first ecumenical council in Nicaea. Why did he summon all the Christian bishops of his ...

Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia glowed under floodlights, its minarets soaring towards the night sky. Turkey’s powerful and radical Islamist President ...

By analyzing ancient and modern DNA, scientists are uncovering the genetic origins of the Greek people, shaped over millennia ...