Anacharsis, a philosopher from Scythia who embraced Greek culture, stands as a remarkable figure in the annals of ancient history. Despite his foreign...

Hypatia, one of the greatest philosophers of Alexandria, was admired for her groundbreaking ideas but was brutally murdered for them by Christian...

Democritus of Abdera was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher best known for developing the atomic theory of the universe. While he has become known in...

Did the ancient Greeks look up at the night sky and ask “are we alone?” As it turns out, ancient Greek philosophers also asked this...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375BC, has shaped western political thought. Greece is now known...

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient, decorated rock tomb hidden in the courtyard of a house in Turkiye’s southeastern city of Sanliurfa,...

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

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

Anaxagoras, a pioneering ancient Greek philosopher, can be seen as a forerunner to the modern understanding of the expanding universe. His...

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...