Inside a white tent with a wooden fireplace in the middle, about two dozen African girls slipped off their shoes, sat on mattresses and prepared to pour their hearts out.

The team looked for an explanation as to why the myth involved a seventh bright star, visible to the naked eye. Running ...

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

But it was not until the advent of the social media that I was really hit by the plausibility of the point made by Plato.

The Heraion of Samos, devoted to Hera, was among the most important sanctuaries of ancient Greece, believed to be the goddess ...

When I was a child, I was a happy Catholic, not so much convinced of the truth of its theology as just swimming in waters in ...

In conclusion, Hölscher suggests that the images of the symposium and the diver in the Paestum tomb provide a powerful ...

Ancient Egypt is not a single moment but a long conversation with the Nile. Over three millennia, kings and commoners turned the river’s rhythm into government, art, and faith. What survives today—the ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT A 13-year-old girl has attempted to take her own life several times, and her mother has been ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered the text on the Rosetta stone, opening a window into ancient Egyptian civilization. The stone had been ...

Ancient Greek poetess Sappho passionately wrote about the ... For instance, at the turn of 20th century, the term "Boston marriage" was in use to refer to two women living together, independent of a ...

Across ancient civilizations, law often carried a strangeness that feels almost unbelievable today. Weird rules shaped the intimate details of daily life, like what people could eat and wear, or even ...