One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...

Most research on women in Ancient Greece and Rome concentrate on urban domestic life where there were no references to women ...

A swarm of earthquakes has rattled the Greek island of Santorini, one of the country’s busiest tourist destinations, raising concerns about the stability of the region’s dramatic, volcanic cliffs ...

Marlon Brando declined his 1973 “Godfather” Oscar to protest Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans. Stars have since used shows to stow, snow or blow about politics.

Thirty feet under the surface of the cold, murky Baltic Sea, Brendan Foley spotted something unusual in the wreckage of an ...

In the 1860s, Swiss anthropologist Johann Bachofen theorised from the information available to him at the time that there was a move from a matriarchal, or a female-led society, to a patriarchal ...

Once known as "the North Korea of Europe", Albania is turning to its millennia-old sites and rich cultural heritage to recast ...

A rare ancient Greek helmet is heading to the auction block, where experts expect it to sell for as much as £90,000 (roughly $111,000). Made between 500 and 450 B.C.E., it’s “one of the best preserved ...

Even in the ancient world, where life was cheap, such savagery against fellow Greeks caused outrage and ... and foreign and domestic politics ...

With time, Corinthians and Athenians developed a “bitter commercial rivalry,” competing for political and mercantile ... and craftsmanship of ancient Greece,” as Ivan Bonchev, director ...

The beads were identified as amber, something that was not common in Syria during the Iron Age and originated from the Baltic coast, reaching areas of the Mediterranean along a route known as the ...