Archaeologists in southern Italy have uncovered remarkable artifacts in an ancient Greek sanctuary recently identified within the Pertosa-Auletta...

Archaeologists in southern Italy have uncovered remarkable artifacts in an ancient Greek sanctuary recently identified within the Pertosa-Auletta...

Theories depicting the shape of the earth swirled in embryonic form in the minds of Ancient Greek thinkers. By Matthew Norman Many pre-Socratic Greek...

Ancient Greek mathematician, Eratosthenes, measured the circumference of the Earth in antiquity. Credit: Public Domain Theories depicting the shape of...

For the Ancient Greeks, virtue was regarded as the highest quality a person could possess, and living virtuously was considered the ultimate goal of...

The Islamic Golden Age was a period during which science, literature, geometry, astronomy, and other fields of knowledge flourished from the eighth to...

Thucydides, the Ancient Greek historian and general defined the identities of Greeks and “barbarians” specifically in relation to the...

In the ancient Greek world, the afterlife was more than a distant mystery; it was a powerful force that shaped religious beliefs, rituals and personal...

In the ancient Greek world, the afterlife was more than a distant mystery; it was a powerful force that shaped religious beliefs, rituals and personal...

The expansion of the Ancient Greeks into Assyria between the 9th and 7th centuries BC occurred through mercenary warfare and the trade of pottery....