No other ancient historian has written a book so insightful on the mechanisms of war as Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.

A Solar eclipse was one of the phenomena that prompted the ancient Greeks to come up with the most brilliant astronomic ...

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From Sicily’s Greek temples to Crete’s Minoan palaces and Meteora’s cliff-top monasteries, Greece and Italy offer living history woven into daily life. These UNESCO-recognized sites are not just ...

A new analysis of human remains buried in Pithekoussai, an ancient Greek colony on the island of Ischia in modern-day Italy, during the eighth century B.C.E. sheds light on the history of Nestor’s Cup ...