Since the time of ancient Rome and Greece, people have dealt with love, this difficult emotion, in all its glory and calamity ...

Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...

Olives were a low-stress crop for millennia, but Greece shows how climate change has made the harvest much less ...

Houses had rooms called Gynaeceum, which were for use only by female members ... One of the most famous stories of women in ancient Greece was a society of warrior women known as the Amazons.

it's clear how significant a role the ocean played in the ancient Greeks' idea of their home. Plato, for example, the ancient philosopher called Greeks frogs around a pond. Ninety percent of ancient ...

The so-called "Baghdad Batteries" have been claimed to be an ancient, rudimentary way of storing power, but are they really ...

Starting off with Ancient Egypt, we’ve got some interesting options. Amazingly, we have two separate papyri that talk about ...

Greece, carrying much more than just my hand luggage. | After a week aboard Celestyal Cruises' 1,260-passenger Celestyal ...

A new study published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization presents an alternative explanation for how city-states emerged in ancient Greece.Instead of being solely the result of war, ...

This is the second installment of Edmonds resident Nathaniel Brown’s recent travels to Greece. You can read part 1 here. Patra My driver to Patra had never been in ...

New Zealand observes Matariki, the Māori New Year, as a public holiday. Celebrations include dawn ceremonies and cultural ...

The Getty Villa reopens after repairs from the Palisades Fire, featuring an exhibition on ancient Greece, with limited ...