The ancient Olympic games were crowded with male athletes, but were there opportunities for females to compete in sports?

Alchemy in Byzantine times was a long intellectual tradition blending Ancient Greek science, Egyptian symbolism, and ...

For many, the idea of soulmates still shapes how love is understood.

Scholars deciphered inscriptions on 4,000-year-old tablets more than 100 years after they were originally discovered. Omens ...

Between Olympus and the Ganges: How Greece and India Shaped the Modern Mind by Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj. Between Olympus and the Ganges is a sweeping, intellectually ambitious work of ...

Monday 9 February marks the inaugural celebration of World Greek Language Day and tributes have been paid from across Europe in recognition of Greece's historical impact on life, literature and ...

Today, dating apps attempt to quantify this search, turning romance into a form of “relation-shopping,” Swami says. Users swipe through dozens of profiles, often feeling the experience is “soulless” ...

A remarkable Roman mosaic found in Rutland turns out to tell a forgotten version of the Trojan War. Rather than Homer’s famous epic, it reflects a lost Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, featuring vivid ...

Hannibal led the Second Punic War against Rome and became famous for his crossing of the Alps and the 16-year campaign which ...

In rejecting psychoanalysis to align with the "hard" sciences, psychology abandoned the human psyche. We're paying the price ...

Take for instance, an Egyptian granary. “Yes, it’s about grain management, but the human figure in the loin cloth tells us he ...

The route a drug takes into the body can matter as much as the drug itself – and rectal use brings risks that are rarely talked about openly. Often called “boofing”, “booty bu ...