Britannia is the national symbol of the UK and can be seen across the country on multiple statues or old pound sterling coins.
Bread has been intricately woven into human history for thousands of years, and ancient Greece was no exception.
The 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism found in an ancient Greek shipwreck has been dubbed the “first computer,” using a ...
Mary Beard opens this book with a recollection of her first meaningful encounter with the ancient world. It was ...
Pontus hazelnuts have been prized since ancient times. Today, the Black Sea region (historical Pontus) produces the majority of the world’s hazelnuts. For Pontian Greeks, they represent more than a ...
Cheering crowds, fast horses, dramatic accidents, and even a little sorcery made up a typical day of chariot racing in Rome ...
Ukrainian boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk wore the ancient Christian Chi-Rho symbol during his fight, linking his faith to a powerful moment in Roman and Greek Christian history.
Beneath a stone floor laid by Roman builders in southwestern Sicily, archaeologists have found something the Romans ...
Canadian author and podcaster draws on Homer, lost epics, Greek drama, Roman retellings, and modern scholarship to ...
Probably London’s coolest spa: an underground bathhouse in a historic building near the River Thames.
The polarising translator of the Odyssey and the Iliad sets out her philosophy in this fascinating collection ...
Europe may not be the world’s largest continent, but when it comes to coastline, it is definitely large enough. Across its 31,000 miles of seafront, it lays claim to some of the planet’s loveliest ...