For her latest book, the popular British scholar Mary Beard gets personal about how she fell for ancient Greece and Rome.
Offscreen, he ruffles no feathers. Like many of his generation, he dabbled in psychedelics and continued to find the lure of ...
The geopolitical importance of Cyprus has been both a blessing and a curse, sparking centuries of conflict over control of ...
Most people have knocked on wood without thinking twice about it, tossed salt over a shoulder out of pure reflex, or felt a ...
The site’s layers contain eight centuries of history.
If we were to venture to Genesis chapter three, we would find how mankind did not fully believe God and what He said, due to Satan‘s deception and perversion of the Word of God. If we continued on a ...
The works “Meditations” by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and “Know Thyself” by Saint Nectarios of Pentapolis are two ...
Excitement is building for the reopening of Chesterfield’s new-look theatre and museum with the construction company working ...
The researchers in Ireland looked at their computer screen, marveling at a medieval book tracked down in a Roman library.
Ancient Rome was a man’s world. In politics, society and the family, men held both the power and the purse-strings – they even decided whether a baby would live or die. Families were dominated by men.
This article explores the origin of the story of ancient Greek mathematician Thales transporting salt with mules. Through the investigation of Thales in historical works ...
When he was asked whether he also wanted to see the tomb of the Ptolemies, Octavian replied: ‘I came to see a king, not ...