If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don't just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus Gellius, who lived in the 2nd century CE, gives us a ...

It is well-known that Pythagoras’ ancient Greek equation for right triangles: a2+ b2= c2 , is older than ancient Greece. We also know that in Khufu’s pyramid the height equals the radius of a circle ...

Ancient Greece is a period in Greek history that lasted for around nine hundred years. It is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of Western Civilization.

Now the debut trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is out in the wild, age-old debates about “historical accuracy” have reemerged. The Odyssey is officially described as a “mythic action epic,” ...

Deep inside the Labyrinth on the island of Crete lived a Minotaur, a monster half man, half bull. Imprisoned there by his stepfather, King Minos of Crete, he dined on human flesh supplied by the city ...

As an epic poem about the Trojan War, that momentous clash of two great armies around the city of Troy, Homer’s Iliad describes many acts of combat. Of these, the climactic battle to which all the ...

An excavation on the Greek island of Evia uncovered an unknown temple near the Temple of Amarysia Artemis still overflowing with rich offerings. Heavily used altars filled with ash found in the temple ...

Ancient Greece is renowned for its extraordinary stone temples. Structures such as the Parthenon were only made possible by the invention of the crane, which is considered to be one the Greeks’ ...

For the ancient Mesopotamians, hell was a distant place, across an ocean of death, located at the end of the world. But for the ancient Greeks and their Neolithic ancestors, the gates to the ...