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.

In the year 338 BC, the forces of Philip ii of Macedon and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Athens and Thebes clashed ...

Historian Josephine Quinn explores how the Phoenicians and their great colony, Carthage, built a maritime empire that once ...

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 ...

On the borderlands of early civilizations, people who considered one another alien met in moments of trade, warfare or simple human curiosity.

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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 ...