The bronze sword was unearthed by archaeologists at an ancient fort in the Nile Delta. It was emblazoned with the signature ...

A tiny deserted Greek island, Agios Petros, hides the remains of an 8,000-year-old settlement now submerged beneath the ...

Plato's allegory of the cave is one of the great stories of philosophy, it allowed us to understand how the philosopher ...

Ovid’s Metamorphoses has several characters who become men, Kaos’s interpretation of such myths is just a bit more modern and empowering.

Kaos has become a hit with its use of Greek mythology, but what does the show look like from the eyes of a historian of ...

In that glacial sample from the Himalayas, scientists have now identified more than 1,700 ancient viruses, though they note that these species do not infect humans. Their findings, tracing how the ...

Despite appearances, Medusa has a tragic tale in Greek myth. Known as a Gorgon with snake hair, her story is best told by Beard in Women and Power: "There are many ancient variations in Medusa's ...

New Netflix series Kaos feels like its creator, Charlie Covell, was given the same instruction for Greek mythology. They decided to see what would happen if Zeus was a tasteless, egotistical ...

ATHENS ― In the country famous for inventing democracy, there’s a sense it is fraying. Greece has experienced a series of scandals that, while all very different, add up to a feeling that justice is ...

The study of celestial objects ran throughout ancient Egyptian culture. Religious events were fixed by the movements of the sun and moon, star charts were carved into the lids of tombs ...

While Barcelona’s inhabitants spray visitors with water pistols and Venice charges them an entrance fee, in Greece tourists can still expect a warm welcome. That said, there are growing signs of ...

When the Moon fully slips into Earth's shadow, a king shall die. So warns an ominous prediction from Old Babylonia, inscribed across several ancient clay tablets. For over a century now, these ...