Gavdos is the southernmost Greek island, located to the south of its much larger neighbor, Crete.

Imagine Socrates live-tweeting his trial or Plato debating in a Reddit thread—welcome to the ancient agora, the original social media of the ancient...

International Women’s Day is a time to celebrate the achievements of women throughout history, and among them, the remarkable ancient Greek women...

The Parthian Battery is one of the most fascinating inventions of the ancient world preceding by two millennia the batteries we use today

The ancient Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus was born into slavery but his study of Stoicism earned him his freedom to later become an influential...

Few symbols in human history have captured the imagination quite like the Gorgoneion—Medusa’s petrifying face, with her hair made of writhing...

Faraaz Abdool speaks in defence of the cocrico, which has flourished alongside Tobago’s development. What better credentials for a national...

  An ancient Greek lekythos (oil flask) is repatriated to Greece from the United States after the museum where it was displayed decided to...

The pioneering research by one of the founders of economic anthropology is essential for understanding the social and institutional processes that...

Epilepsy, often referred to as the “Sacred Disease” by ancient Greek physicians in antiquity, was a condition of great medical and...