My generation grew up during the days when there were lots of games to play. However, our young people today have no idea ...

Whether or not you can make it to the blockbuster exhibition on the artist now open at the Palazzo Barberini, here are a ...

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

Discovered in Taiwan, the jawbone is believed to have belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called ...

With their new production of the epic Hellas, theatergoers will have the opportunity to experience performance as it was done in Ancient Greece: an all-day affair filled with spectacle, masks, period ...

The Clayton Museum of Ancient History, which features artifacts from the ancient Near East and Rome, is included in the ...

Dire wolves, which went extinct more than 10,000 years old, are much larger than gray wolves, their closest living relatives today.

The words of the ancient Greek author Homer have echoed across the centuries. His magnum opus, the Iliad, which recounts the ...

While excavating the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., ...

In the modern day, mirrors are just about everywhere. But that wasn't always the case, and the mirror actually has a ...

In the late 18th and early 19th century, Westerners were involved in extensive looting of Greek antiquities as the nation was ...

American actor John Lithgow won the best actor trophy at the London stage Olivier Awards on Sunday for exploring the dark ...