The pharmacy of Asclepius, the ancient Greek god of medicine, was located next to a mountain where medicinal herbs used to ...

For the Greeks, the idea was a fluid one—a literal place and a civic ideal that allowed for democracy to flourish.

Excavations in Paros, Greece, have uncovered a Hellenistic-era workshop with unfinished marble statues, including Aphrodite ...

For the ancient Greeks, Aphrodite was about so much more than love and beauty. In politics, business and war, she embodied ...

From protein-filled meals to the benefits of lentils and intermittent fasting, the Classical world had strong opinions about how to stay healthy.

Leinster House officials and Government Departments are pleading mystification in the strange case of a TD who received a ...

Workers were installing benches at a park in the ancient Greek port city of Thessaloniki when their excavator pushed brown soil off a fragile white skull. They turned off the motorized equipment ...

(photo: Daniel Ibañez / EWTN News) Hannah Brockhaus/CNA Vatican April 30, 2025 Cardinal Leonardo Sandri on Wednesday recalled one of the traditional titles for the pope, the “Servant of the ...

THE Celebrity Traitors stars get off their high horse for a challenge set in ancient Greece. They were filming the BBC show in the Scottish Highlands with what looked like a Trojan horse.

The macabre world of ancient Egyptian ritual sacrifice may have contributed to the domestication of cats, new research suggests. Mummified cats (Felis catus) were such a common offering to the ...

My late classics professor taught me that Ancient Greek tragedy dramatized different points of view, insisted on empathy, and warned against hubris. What would he have made of our current moment?