Imagine being able to travel back thousands of years, not with a time machine, but through the words our ancestors spoke. It ...

The attempt of the Pythagoreans to reshape society in Croton, Magna Graecia, through politics led to public backlash and persecution.

My late classics professor taught me that Ancient Greek tragedy dramatized different points of view, insisted on empathy, and ...

The Bible tells of a fateful encounter between an Egyptian Pharaoh and a King of Judah at "Armageddon". Archaeologists found ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

Kabbalah intertwines with Greek philosophy, from Neoplatonism to Pythagorean symbols, shaping Jewish mystical thought.

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

The Call of Kinnaru and Visiting Professor of Classics Marissa Henry took to the stage last Thursday for a performance of ...

N’arrow House is a wedge-shaped subterranean home that is being built into a hillside in Crete. The ambitious project is ...

The lecture hall was discovered during excavations at Agrigento, the site of the largest ancient Greek settlement in Sicily. Photo by Thomas Lappi and Monika Trümper, FU Berlin, Institute of ...

In ancient Greece, education wasn’t limited to the mind — it included the body as well. Physical fitness and scholarly pursuits went hand-in-hand, a principle reflected in the number of gymnasiums ...

Science was not developed so much by individuals but by a highly complex global process that brought together ideas, lived experiences and approaches from all major civilizations. Ancient Greek ...