An overview of Ancient Greek art, including painting, sculpture and architecture, and a look at how it changed over the years ...

Ancient Greeks saw Olympus as a divine realm of Zeus and the gods, not a mountain. Its link to Mount Olympus emerged in later traditions.

In the Odyssey, the Phaeacians had special ships. They were self-driving, being able to propel and steer themselves through ...

Indeed, a significant barrier to identifying Homer's Troy with the remains of the ancient city of Troy located ... had been ravaged during the classical period. So Hector's revenge is more ...

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

At Cornell, I’ve come to realize that, by this point in history, to think that anything at all is unprecedented is simply to have not read enough history. There is no question that someone else has ...

Over a 10-year period, fighting across modern-day Turkey ... some followers of Zoroastrianism, an ancient monotheistic religion, still think of him as evil for destroying their ancient records ...

You might think, given the intervening millennia, that we would already have found most of the world's ancient treasures ... archaeologists revealed a rare mosaic depicting a scene from Homer's epic, ...

It’s a bit weird, the number of shows streaming on our televisions and iPads that take their bearings from glowingly ...