Many of us have tussled online with internet trolls but did you know that trolling has its roots in Ancient Greece?

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

It’s hard to study the history of science without feeling a little big smug. Just look at the things our ancestors believed!

It’s Salka, a faerie. The faerie world is separated from our world by water. Beneath the lake, the water stops and there lies a world similar to ours - a world of air - but magical, and full of these ...

THE cloak of myth is a fine and covert delivery ... Here’s an example: the ancient Greek dramatist Euripides wrote The Trojan Women shortly after his city, Athens, had butchered all the men ...

New discoveries in archaeology are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society all the ...

Life in ancient Greece revolved around city-states ... longer flowing garments fastened with decorative pins. The himation, a cloak, was used for warmth. Wealthier Greeks adorned themselves with ...

“The word aigai means ‘goats’ in ancient Greek,” says Kottaridi ... He wore a white cloak and a golden crown, and most dramatically, he was unarmed. Macedonian men typically wore their ...

Arabian heights - with markets, mosques and island magic, Dave Monk finds places to worship on a Persian Gulf cruise, taking ...

For the ancient Romans, the roads and paths leading ... She’s draped in a modest tunic, cloak and veil (symbols of Roman womanhood) and boasts a pronounced crescent-moon-shaped pendant at ...