A new study shows how thinkers of ancient Greece and the Roman Empire helped establish the principles that guide modern ...

In the Mary Zimmerman play “Metamorphosis” humans are frail and their gods are petty. The playwright takes six stories from ...

Although the ancient Greeks and Romans believed that human sacrifice was barbaric, they occasionally practiced it themselves.

A Professor of Classics at the University of Ibadan, Prof. Olakunbi Olasope, has urged the introduction of a compulsory ...

This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know ...

As the Roman Empire transformed, its emperors had conflicting views on pagan traditions. This video explores their personal stances, policies, and how they shaped Rome’s religious future.

Formed by cascading hot springs and framed by ancient ruins, these white terraces in western Turkey create a surreal ...

The awe-inspiring Greek Gods, deeply intertwined with the natural world, were represented through animals which were symbolic ...

Legend has it that when the Statue of Zeus was completed, the king of the gods announced his approval via a lightning bolt.

Nearly 60 works from the legendary Torlonia Collection, hidden for decades, showcase the splendor of ancient Rome at the ...

When New York-based jeweller Sarah Ysabel Narici was designing her take on a hoop earring for her brand Dyne, she looked to ancient Rome and Greece. “Myths about power, transformation, human desires, ...

Egyptian archaeologists recently uncovered a hidden harbor at an ancient temple connected to Cleopatra VII – an unexpected find for historians.