The fascination with Greek culture can be traced to the early modern period, from the Renaissance until the eighteenth century. During this era, European scholars – and later educated elites and a ...

A Christian empire that inherited classical learning, Byzantium preserved pagan texts via schools, new script, scholia, and ...

Beneath the shifting waters of Alexandria’s eastern harbour, on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, lie the drowned remnants of a ...

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Equal parts strange and terrifying: these are some of the many monsters that have haunted Greek mythology since antiquity.

Necromancy in ancient Greece referred to calling up the souls of the dead to consult with them for oracular purposes.

A Study Gallery of India and the Ancient World, trains its lens to the duration between the Harappan civilisation — which began roughly 5000 years ago — and the Gupta Empire in the 6th century CE ...

Rav Yitzchok Hutner's thoughts on the significance of the Maccabees' victory over the Greeks: 'The rekindling of the Temple Menorah on Hanukkah represents a new era of Torah transmission.' ...

If you think we are the only generation obsessed with hair care routines and rituals, you're mistaken. Throughout history, civilisations around the globe had their own sets of unique and effective ...

A group of scientists are studying the Cyclades, an island group in Greece's Aegean Sea, looking for signs of early human activity. They are using technology such as laser scanning and magnetometry, ...

British tourists are flocking to a historic Greek island that has all the beauty of Mykonos and Crete, without the crowds.