Ancient Greece's Special Forces, from the Sacred Band of Thebes to the Hetairoi of Alexander the Great's army, became legendary in history.

Southeastern Italy may be better known for its beaches and burrata, but it’s also layered with ancient Greek and Roman ...

Kings and Generals' historical animated documentary series on the history of Ancient Civilizations and Ancient Greece ...

In Ancient Palestine, numerous wars took place between the Israelites and the Philistines. What do we know about these wars?

In Greek mythology, Eos was the goddess of the dawn. Though, like other primordial gods, she was not widely worshiped by the ...

On his 39th birthday, Leonard Cohen was experiencing a kind of midlife crisis. He was living with his partner and her young son on the Greek island of Hydra. Earlier in the year he had alluded to ...

West Carleton Secondary School adapted Homer’s poem, The Odyssey, and transformed it into a comedic farce. They told the ...

On April 19, we honor Lord Byron, a fervent Philhellene whose £4,000 cheque—equivalent to £332,000 today—revealed by The ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?

For the first time, one of the most important works of antiquity, the hunting mural from the tomb of Philip II in Vergina, is being restored. What does it depict, and what is its exceptional significa ...

Radiocarbon dating traced the bones to approximately A.D. 80 to 234 — a period in which more than a dozen Roman emperors ruled, including Domitian and Trajan, who clashed with ancient Germanic ...