While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have used ancient DNA to challenge long-held interpretations of the people of Pompeii. Contrary to physical appearances, the DNA evidence revealed unexpected ...

The IOA's letter to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) sent last month, declaring its “intent to host the Olympic and ...

A recent AI-generated video showing giants building the pyramids has revived questions around the myths and science behind ...

The Ancient Olympics by Nigel Spivey (Cambridge ... but never so widely as in Putin’s Russia. Donald Rayfield on the history of Russian Orthodoxy. Are children being burned out by endless exams? Or ...

From the BBC Oral History Collection. As can be seen from this BBC film about the televising of the Olympics, the Games were a proving ground for new and more advanced equipment. It also rapidly ...

I’m currently reading Laurel Ulrich’s A Midwife’s Tale, based on the diary of a midwife in late-18th-century Maine—fascinating for the texture of social and economic history, and full of lessons for ...

However, that’s not what made him famous in history, but rather the fact that he won a race ... and so does that of the Ancient Olympic Games, of course. In this case, it all started with Coroebus, a ...

Whether you’re a fan of Sonic’s rival-turned-ally or not, his side of the game is filled with some of the best, most well-designed levels in the series’ 3D history. It’s a chunky piece of ...

Eventually, nine muses were identified, covering every branch of the arts, in the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s introduction to Theogony, his epic poem about mythical stories and characters (circa ...

An ancient slab of seafloor that was around when ... “Our findings help link the plate tectonic history of the past 250 million years to present-day mantle structures,” Wang says, “providing ...