In Greece, the landscape is inseparable from history. From ancient ruins to more recent residences, each site seems to bear the memory of a rich and sometimes stormy past.

Historian Themistocles Kritikakos offers the first comprehensive comparative study of Armenian, Greek and Assyrian Genocide ...

The parchments initially contained references to a star catalog and maps created during the second century B.C.E.

One of the things I never wrapped my head around was how the Roman Republic managed to conquer the mighty city-states and ...

In this unusually eventful — mostly not in good ways — year for higher education, it’s salutary to be reminded how much good ...

This article dives into the striking parallels-and critical differences-between ancient empires and today’s superpowers. How do drones, AI, and cyber warfare redefine conflict compared to the trenches ...

In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, the harpies were a group of animal-human hybrid monsters like the sirens and the ...

Our understanding of Ancient Greece relies on the few surviving books, among the countless lost ones, shaping what we know ...

Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

“This book is the culmination of over a decade of research into India’s deeper historical patterns,” said Dr. Vemsani. “I dedicate it to all colonized peoples. While political colonization may have ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and complex links with neighbors.

Founded in 315 BC by King Cassander of Macedon on the site of ancient Therma, Thessaloniki was named after his wife Thessalonike, half-sister of Alexander the Great. Her name ("victory of the ...