Today, when one thinks of the origin of sports and athletic competitions, the ancient Greeks often come to mind. Although ...

A vast library was assembled in Assyria by King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2,700 years ago. The ...

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A Classics researcher at the University of Cincinnati is using today's technology to learn more about the mass production and ...

Yannis Tsarouchis was one of the most prominent figures of Greek art and his work has just begun to garner attention outside ...

A new stage production of The Picture of Dorian Gray conveys the cost of posturing online.

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Kenyan literary giant Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is 87 and has struggled with his health in recent years, but he still hopes to complete a new book.

According to Gojko Baryamovic, an Assyriologist at Yale University, few scholars believed that there were written recipes in the Mesopotamian period, because until modern times, cooking recipes ...