A cache of 18th-century letters reveals Suzanne Vera’s ancestral link to the French acquisition of the Venus de Milo, tracing a remarkable Greek family story of diplomacy, revolution and cultural ...

The Bengal Reader is an expansive anthology of Bengali writing in translation to be published in one volume. Ranging from the ...

One of the things I find most rewarding about traveling is the moments of wonder that happen when I stumble upon something strange and wonderful in an unexpected place. Often, this is a scenic view, a ...

Today, checking the time is effortless. A quick glance at a wristwatch, a wall clock, or even a mobile phone instantly tells us whether we are late for class, early for an appointment or right on time ...

Method of Mechanical Theorems is a letter from Archimedes to Eratosthenes, the head of the library of Alexandria and a ...

Other favourite monsters of modernity were similarly re-created: the most familiar element of the werewolf myth, the fatal silver bullet, was devised in 1941 for the Hollywood movie The Wolf Man, and ...

Gilgamesh, the builder-king of Uruk, and Achilles, the destroyer-prince of Phthia, represent the primal archetypes of the ...

The city of Naucratis was the earliest ancient Greek colony in Egypt that served as the connecting and trading post between ...

How has the pronunciation of Greek, one of the world's oldest languages still spoken today, changed over time?

Discovered in a Mediterranean shipwreck in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism stunned historians with its intricate system of interlocking bronze gears dating back to around 100 BC. X-ray imaging later ...

The sophisticated language Plato wrote in gave way to a simplified "common" Greek—and with it, a simplified psychology. We inherited a twice-flattened concept of mind.