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

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A New Orleans family cleaning up their overgrown backyard made an extremely unusual find: Under the weeds was a mysterious ...

There are arguably few ancient thinkers as influential in their domains as Socrates, Aristotle, and Confucius. Emerging from different cultures or epochs in time, these three remarkable teachers ...

The loss of the ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge has been mourned for centuries—but Julius Caesar may not ...

Marvel and Disney concept artist Andrew Leung (“Mulan,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”) and French animator and director ...

This school year, many Texas districts are teaching from an elementary curriculum that features extensive content about the ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Sillyon in Turkey's Antalya province have uncovered the remarkable tomb of Menodora, a wealthy Roman-era woman whose extraordinary philanthropy ...

One morning in995, I received a phone call that changed my life. It was The Daily Telegraph, asking if I would be interested ...

Comet Lemmon, also designated C/2025 A6, was discovered in January by a telescope scouring the night sky for near-Earth ...

The Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, are also believed to have been built during ...

Here is a roundup of Catholic world news from the past week that you might have missed: ...