BroadwayWorld is excited to exclusively reveal that Tony-winner André De Shields is back as Hermes, god of storytellers, ...

How would you spend your holiday in Greece - unravelling the mysteries of ancient civilisations or making the most of the cracking coastline? Our duelling experts make the case for both.

There is, one character says, “no way to pretty up what follows”. Indeed. Nor is there any attempt to, as that might spoil ...

It was the mid-10th century AD when Kievan Rus was ruled for the first time by a woman, appointed as regent on behalf of her ...

The untouched Bronze Age tomb and the skeletons inside will hopefully provide archaeologists with information about the ...

How would you spend your holiday in Greece - unravelling the mysteries of ancient civilisations or making the most of the ...

King Minos sacrifices the 'required' virgins to the Minotaur. As his wife lies dying, she confesses that her daughter has a twin she has secreted to avoid giving one of the girls to the Minotaur.

The city and its inhabitants played a prominent role in the political and cultural world of Crete. Homer even mentions the Kydonians in the Odyssey. Later, in 69 BC, the Romans took over the island, ...

The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization. This aerial photo shows that ...

they appear to have had a 'man-bull' cult (potentially similar to the Cretan cult symbolized by the famous myth of the Minotaur). The Nuragic obsession with seafaring is reflected in the final phase ...

New archaeological research is revealing that, more than a thousand years before Britain became part of the Roman Empire, it was part of an extraordinary Mediterranean-based trading network.