In Rome's Colosseum and other amphitheaters in cities scattered across the sprawling ancient Roman Empire, gladiatorial ...

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

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

An archaeological site in Germany suggests communal hunting and complex thinking emerged earlier in human evolution than once thought.

A herd of wild horses that traces its origins to the 14th century still roams the countryside in western Germany.

An ancient depiction of a naked woman hung on the wall of my father’s study. Skeletal, stupefied, and wildly bedheaded, she contemplated distances across time and space, as saints and mystics do.

Sadly, such was the zeal of the reformation that virtually none of these depictions remain, apart from fragments ... The ‘Mostyn Christ’ (The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments ...

Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s Iliad in the Fight for a Dying World by Edith Hall sees the signs of environmental ...