Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity explores the connections between Irish myths and modern stories and the classical ...

In ancient Greece, music education was as important as philosophy in cultivating young people's souls, perceiving both ...

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

Discovered in a Mediterranean shipwreck in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism stunned historians with its intricate system of interlocking bronze gears dating back to around 100 BC. X-ray imaging later ...

Some scholars trace Valentine's Day back to ancient Greece and the mythical green meadows of Arcadia in the Peloponnese.

(The Root) — This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black in Western Art Archive at Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for ...

Archaeologists in Greece may have made a fascinating discovery in an ancient palace on the island of Crete. Citing Greece’s Ministry of Culture, ANA-MPA reports that the room was discovered during ...

In impromptu remarks delivered following the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy called on Americans to “tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of ...

Archaeologists in Trabzon, Turkey, have made an extraordinary discovery, unearthing one of the world’s only three known ancient river ports. The structure, found buried nearly eight meters (26 feet) ...

As Greece feels the impact of overtourism due to rising visitor numbers, it’s still possible to find idyllic, lesser-visited ...