In two thrilling new fictional riffs on Greek myth, Natalie Haynes and Zoe Terakes interrogate ancient stories of heroism and ...

Many people grow up hearing Christmas classics explained as absolute facts, and the stories stay untouched for years. A ...

Diagoras was the first known atheist, whose bold critique of the gods was crucial in shaping early Greek secular thought.

In 1842, French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey captured the oldest surviving image of the Acropolis from ...

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

More than a century ago, a group of sponge divers discovered a shipwreck near the Greek island of Antikythera. It turned out to be the ruins of a cargo vessel dating back some 2,000 years—and hiding a ...