The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

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One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

A collection of artefacts collected 2,500 years ago in modern-day Iraq reveal the forgotten world of Mesopotamia, home to ...

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

When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

Two decades after construction began, the Grand Egyptian Museum, which houses more than 100,000 ancient treasures, will host ...

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

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.

This post highlights historical places to visit in Athens Greece. It also provides insight into planning your itinerary for a ...

The Maria Callas Museum is enriching its exhibition with new objects that shed light on lesser-known aspects of the life of ...