That includes ancient Egypt, as well as ancient Greek, Vedic, Maya, Inca, and Aztec cultures. The Urarina people who live in the Peruvian Amazon Basin still use a psychoactive brew called ayahuasca in ...

Why do we keep returning to Greek tragedy? These ancient texts and the way we study them in classrooms can often feel rigid, ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar’s claim that Ottomans arrived in Cyprus before Greeks, made amid Turkish President Erdogan ...

Pierre Zalloua, a Lebanese-born population geneticist with a flair for (gently) stirring the pot, takes the reader on an ...

Plutarch could be considered the first outspoken vegetarian in the West, as he believed that it is "immoral" to eat animal ...

Hellanicus of Lesbos, born c. 480 BC in Greece, was one of the earliest, most prolific Greek logographers of the 5th century ...

Adventures by Disney will operate two new itineraries to Switzerland and Greece next year. The itineraries are billed as ...

For over two thousand years, successive societies forged the civilization of ancient Greece. From the early societies of the ...

The Acropolis Museum in Athens presents *“Allspice – Michael Rakowitz and Ancient Cultures,”* a powerful new exhibition exploring themes of cultural loss, war, and restitution. Running from May 12 to ...

At the northern end of the Black Sea, Crimea sits at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, having been at various times in its ...

For the families of slain pro-Communist Greeks, the find in the Park of National Resistance is reviving a wartime legacy kept ...

Taylor Swift’s new fascination with ancient coin jewelry shines a spotlight on Roman denarii, historical talismans—and maybe ...