Deipnosophistae by Athenaeus, a work written around 200 CE about well-read people philosophizing and enjoying good food and drink.

Archaeologists in Crete have uncovered a 3,800-year-old Minoan ritual of demolishing tombs and a communal feast.

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