(Images: Apollo, 1st–2nd century CE, restored in the 16th or 17th century. Roman. Marble. Dallas Museum of Art, gift of David T. Owsley via the Alvin and Lucy Owsley Foundation and Bromberg Family ...

Historian Josephine Quinn explores how the Phoenicians and their great colony, Carthage, built a maritime empire that once overshadowed both Greece and Rome ...

Euripides exposed the city’s turmoil, challenged the gods, and gave scandalous voice to women and the silenced, unsettling Athens.

The largest libraries of the ancient world weren’t mere book collections. They were centers of power, education, and survival across empires.

For most of history, war was the rule and peace the pause. “War appears to be as old as mankind, but peace is a modern invention,” noted 19th-century jurist Sir Henry Maine. As Michael Howard argued ...

The ancient Athenian writer Isocrates (436–338 BC) once commented: "Many cities judge those who excel in the athletic contests to be worthy of greater rewards than those who, by painstaking thought ...

Almost 1800 years after Rome’s founding, the people we call Byzantines still thought of themselves as part of the same enduring society.

Othership is an exemplar of “social wellness,” a watchword of the self-care economy. It was popularized by Jonathan Leary, who started the group-friendly health club Remedy Place in New York City in ...

For thousands of years, farmers have used beans not just for food but also for what they leave behind. The ancient Greeks noticed something strange about bean plants – the soil seemed richer after the ...

This video reveals the staggering wealth and extravagance of Rome’s elite, who spent fortunes on lavish banquets, rare pearls dissolved in wine, opulent villas with marble columns and fishponds, and ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history, including the consecration of Pope Leo the Great, the end of the Synod of Pistoria, and CS Lewis s conversion to Christianity ...