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

The Byzantine Empire has marked world history in many significant ways, contributing ingenious inventions still in use to ...

Switzerland’s iconic milk chocolate, considered one of the country’s greatest inventions alongside the wristwatch and the ...

Explore the glowing Blue Caves of Zakynthos — where the sea turns light into magic.

Titan Quest II is an Action/RPG where players will be immersed in the mythological realm of ancient Greece, facing unimaginable challenges, striving for exquisite loot, and combining different ...

American cities now dedicate somewhere between one-third and one-half of their land area to streets, parking lots, and ...

The epics of Homer, written during Greece's Archaic Period, gave form and substance to the gods of mythology, shaping Greek ...

The integration of Greek into Islamic intellectual traditions was the subject of a panel discussion titled “Greek Knowledge in Arabic: Why, What and How” at the 44th Sharjah International Book Fair ...

Dr. Said Faiq, Professor of International Studies and Translation at AUS, stated that “translation is inherently linked to culture; it is not just about converting words but adapting them to a ...

THE ALPHABET is easy to take for granted. Children memorise it before they know why it matters. Then it’s off to reading, and learning the sounds of the letters and how they combine. After that, many ...

The AD/CE system we use to date the year was introduced, more or less by accident, during the Middle Ages. Before its invention, the classical world used a wide range of dating systems. Governments ...

The Romans were great admirers of the Greeks and their civilization. The emperor Nero, for instance, was a Philhellene who travelled extensively around Greece and even gave a huge tax-exemption to the ...