Ancient people of Mount Athos, Greece probably owed their longevity to their bizarre eating habits. Let's take a look at the ...

Alexander Zeldin’s play at the Shed obliquely draws on ‘Antigone’ in telling its story of a young woman, her uncle and the ...

"I came and saw.\" Discover the story of Cikai Korran, the Tamil trader who left his name in the Valley of the Kings 2,000 ...

In the year 338 BC, the forces of Philip ii of Macedon and an alliance of Greek city-states led by Athens and Thebes clashed in a decisive battle that would change the course of history. The armies ...

Every year, on the second Sunday in February, American capitalism gathers around a single, electronic campfire to watch the ...

From the Third Intermediate Period through the Late, Ptolemaic, and Roman eras, ancient Egyptian private funerary monuments underwent marked architectural and ritual reconfigurations ...

On the Conquest of Constantinople is one of the most important historical sources on the Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople.

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) ...

Millions visit the vast and remarkably preserved ancient city of Ephesus each year, stepping back through the centuries to walk marble streets, explore Roman baths and admire landmarks like the ...

Nora doesn’t have the name recognition—or crowds—of Pompeii. But the well-preserved coastal settlement offers travelers a ...

“ Tyrannoroter is the earliest and most complete vertebrate land herbivore to show adaptations that could process high-fiber ...

People complain aboutconstruction delays, but even the most sluggish modern transit project has nothing on Greece’s Corinth Canal, which didn’t open until 2,500 years after it ...