Athens and Sparta were two very different societies, yet the two legendary city-states hold priceless historic value for ...

A tough military society, Sparta had its own secret service, the Crypteia, specially trained young men for covert operations ...

Greece isn’t just a place, it’s a feeling. It’s where myths breathe through pine-covered hills, marble ruins glow under honey ...

Whether laced with viper venom, poison gas, or deadly pathogens—these weapons of war relied on nature's armory to slay the enemy. Poison in the woundThe Greek warrior Achilles treats Telephus’s ...

Several lines of evidence, including historical records and artistic depictions, suggest that female gladiators did exist in ...

The bridge of understanding between the distant past, the recent past, and the present of psychological healing.

Ancient Greek philosophers viewed resources as abundant, not scarce, so economic action was judged not by the accumulation of ...

Physical education can be used to develop good habits of thinking, feeling, and acting. However, it is not always (or even ...

Did you know about the deadly female assassins of ancient India? These women were called ‘Vishkanya’, which literally tr ...

Italian archaeologists, working with Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Directorate of Archaeology, have discovered eight new ancient sites from Swat to Taxila. The findings, including a 1,200-year-old ...

If this campaign has been a sprint compared to other more sprawling qualifying programmes, then Scotland – along with Denmark ...

The latest scroll to emerge from the ash of Vesuvius does not tidy up Stoicism so much as complicate it, by setting a rival ...