Long before Pericles' Golden Age, an aristocrat named Cleisthenes laid the true foundation for Athenian democracy.

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Obsidian from the island of Milos, found in Franchthi Cave, shows seafaring in Greece began over 11,000 years ago in the ...

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Hell is one of the best-known bizarre place names in the United States, and popular legend will tell you that its founder once exclaimed, “You can name it Hell for all I care!” and the name stuck. A ...

At The Met, “Divine Egypt” brings a 3,000-year pantheon of gods to life through sculpture, relief, and sacred art.

Everyone dreams of the Amalfi Coast, that glittering strip of cliffside glamour. Italy’s islands tell a quieter, deeper story ...

What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big, blinding event: kaboom! Vulcanologists, seismologists, geologists and ...

Your brain might short-circuit when you realize that some of Ohio’s finest crab cakes aren’t coming from a coastal city or a trendy seafood spot, but from a historic tavern in tiny Hanoverton where ...

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