The Sicilian Agathocles, a man not only of obscure but lowly and abject origins, became king of Syracuse. The son of a potter ...
The handful animal ghosts in the ancient world are often depicted not as friendly visitors but as mere tools for humans – and ...
But, in reality, ancient Greeks and Romans embraced bold colors, which archaeologists call “polychromy.” Brightly hued paints ...
Cardinal Marcello Semeraro outlines the journey to canonization. Even from his hospital bed, Pope Francis wanted to make sure ...
Archaeologists have discovered evidence of an Egyptian army where an Israelite king was killed. The discoveries at Megiddo, ...
The so-called Church of Dante doesn't house the poet's body, but that of his muse Beatrice. So, why is it not called the ...
The many Mortal Kombat timelines have introduced various gods into the lore, with examples like Raiden and Fire God Liu Kang ...
New research is shedding light on the bouleuterion building that once stood in the ancient city of Teos, located in ...
The cry of the rooster was one of the most familiar sounds in the life cycle of a first-century person, as common as the ...
Hunter catches even more fish than TDs and INTs: "That's all he really wants to do other than be the best football player on ...
In Book IV of Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus’s young son, Telémakhos, visits the court of his father’s erstwhile comrade-in-arms at Troy, Menelaos, the king of S ...
The Thermia Suites. The island of Kythnos in Greece, which has evolved immensely in the past few years, is also called ...