Was Plato on to something, or is the lost city just that?

Two thousand years ago, people in Roman Egypt wrote letters, kept receipts, made lists and dealt with the everyday bureaucracy of life. Some of those pieces of ancient life are no ...

Acclaimed historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes shares her five essential books on the ancient world, from Sappho and ...

Ancient Greek poet Pindar highlighted affection's importance in gift-giving over two millennia ago. His words emphasize that ...

India's struggle of independence has been inspired by Greek ideals that many of its revolutionaries and philhellenes shared ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Ann Arbor is thousands of miles — and thousands of years — away from Ancient Egypt, but one of ...

A UVA expert explains how Homer’s “The Odyssey” remains relevant in a movie world of Avengers, X-Men and spider-bitten youth.

Long before serums and retinol, ancient Greeks and Romans had their own idea of a glow up. It involved crocodile dung. Yes, actual crocodile faeces, smeared straight onto the face. It sounds like a ...

The answer lies in a series of ancient and medieval texts that the orthodox authorities tried to suppress. These texts, from ...

As the Jewish calendar ends the period known as the Three Weeks, or "Bein HaMetzarim," reflection naturally turns to the ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called up "The Odyssey" director Christopher Nolan this week to congratulate him on the success of his blockbuster adaptation of Homer's epic ancient Greek ...

The release of Nolan's 'The Odyssey' has sparked a huge surge in people wanting to read Homer's ancient poem and learn the Greek language. Some purists, however, aren't best pleased with the cinematic ...