A 2,600-year-old Cypriot chariot has been successfully repatriated following a coordinated international effort, the Department of Antiquities of the Deputy Ministry of Culture announced. On June 18, 2026, the artifact was officially handed over to the Embassy of the...
It is difficult to overstate just how unusual and ingenious Al-Masudi was for his time.
Most history written in the 10th century is what we would consider “conventional” history. It consists of lists of kings, battles, and religious lineages, page...
Greece and China have been two of the world’s most unique civilizations, but how many of us know that the ancient Greeks were actually at war with the Chinese?
The story is more complicated than one might think. Buried beneath...
“Nephilim” and “Titans” seem to belong to entirely different worlds—one drawn from the Bible and the other from Greek mythology. Yet set them side by side, and the similarities are hard to ignore. So what is the story of...
You may have walked through the antiquity wing of a museum and noticed a surprisingly consistent pattern. Almost all archaic Greek statues share the same pose, standing straight up like a board with their gaze fixed directly ahead and...
Few figures in history have been as polarizing and controversial as Nero, the infamous Roman emperor who had a love affair with everything related to Greece. His reign ranged between extreme ambition and political chaos.
Among his many eccentricities that...
What comes to mind when you think about the kind of Roman Emperor who managed to establish an indestructible empire that lasted in human memory for centuries?
In other words, who would be the best Roman Emperor in history? The...
The Ancient Greek joke book, the Philogelos, a 4th-century manuscript compiled by Hierocles and Philagrius, shows that the Ancient Greeks also took time away from their serious pursuits in philosophy and statecraft to simply goof off.
This compilation of jokes...
