Thucydides’s account, History of the Peloponnesian War, is considered a classic, as well as being one of the earliest known ...

Athens of ancient Greece, the birthplace of democracy, had an interesting system called ostrakismos, or ostracism. It was a system that allowed certain dangerous individuals to be expelled from the ...

Unlike his predecessors, who relied on myths and legends, Herodotus took a revolutionary approach. He travelled extensively, ...

In the third part of its series classical cultures, the Getty Museum looks at Thrace, a territory of tribes that sat between ...

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Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans ...

Two thieves donned diving gear to pilfer hundreds of ancient Greek and Roman artifacts from the bottom of the sea in Egypt, according to the country’s interior ministry. Egyptian authorities say ...

Parthenon Sculptures, Elgin Marbles, Keir Starmer, Margaritis Schinas, European Union, Brexit, Greece, UK relations, British Museum, Lord Byron, Greek War of Independence, cultural heritage ... topped ...

December 26, 2024 • Triggered by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the catastrophic event was the deadliest tsunami in recorded history. December 26 ...

Gazans can in many ways be thought of as a separate ethnicity from West Bank Palestinians. This is because Gazans have ...