Explore the unique social and sexual freedoms of Spartan women, their roles in society, marriage customs, and the practice of ...

The hydraulic telegraph, a telecommunications device invented by ancient Greeks, allowed the sending of long distance ...

Only a minority of Greek and Roman children received an education. Those few found themselves in a strange world of poetry and pedantry.

During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great ...

The project has been almost 100 years in the making, when one of the Ringling brothers bought thousands of works from the ...

A 2,000-year-old tombstone of a Roman sailor that was found in New Orleans will be repatriated to a museum in Civitavecchia, ...

Today marks the 20 year anniversary of Rockstar Games' onetime video game adaptation of 1979 action thriller film The ...

In any event, Perdiccas and his brothers arrived in another part of Macedon and settled close to a site called the “Garden of Midas.” Perdiccas is recognized as the founder of the Argead dynasty, and ...

If the founders of America had been forced to surrender in 1775, as the Judeans were in 63 BCE, and had continued to fight ...

The teaching of the “classics” – primarily the ancient civilisations of Greece and Rome – may be fading from universities, but interest remains high among publishers and readers. This is largely ...

The images of people snatched off the street by masked armed men in plain clothes smack of the repressive tactics of ...

In this episode, I talk with Dr. Eckart Frahm at Yale University, one of the leading voices in the study of Mesopotamian history and texts, to take a look at interactions and overlap between ...