Cleopatra, and Marc Antony spent time in their decadent love affair on the Greek island of Samos in the summer of 32 B.C.

Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised ...

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

Does he really imagine that Protestants are incapable of learning languages, especially if – like countless Protestant ...

Watch out for that bat behind you,” warned Luca Messina, a civil engineer who moonlights as a speleo-archaeologist with ...

In 1880, when Social Security’s baby name lists start, Milo ranked 339th. It slowly dropped, leaving the top thousand in 1966. Now, it's bouncing back.

Archaeologists from the British Museum and Iraq have unearthed hundreds of administrative tablets from an ancient Sumerian city. Bureaucracy’s ability to take up needless time is clearly timeless. Sir ...

Over two thousand years, the Ramayana has accumulated several layers, troubling both the liberal and the orthodox factions.

How students at USC Aiken explore the histories and cultures of Latin America through its diverse ... in my classroom they are also transported to ancient Mesoamerica, not only through literature ...

Yet despite a wealth of data and new techniques including ancient DNA analysis, archaeologists still wrestle with many porcine mysteries, including why the once plentiful animal gradually became ...