The Romans associated pants with barbarism and eventually banned them, but the legwear eventually became commonplace nonetheless.
Arts Reporter Shawn Quek sits down with professor Agnes Callard about the philosophy of fashion.
Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...
Work on the US$604 million Palmyra-to-Moleson Creek road expansion project in Region Six inched closer to commencement as the Ministry of Public Works yesterday hosted a public engagement with key ...
As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...
Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Derveni Papyrus, named for the ...
New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...
Palmyra, N.Y. — Nobody was hurt when a car crashed into the garage of a Wayne County home Monday afternoon. Police said around 1:30 p.m., a 22-year-old driver left the roadway and struck the ...
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Here’s how it works. An ancient and enigmatic stone circle in the Middle East may not be a prehistoric astronomical observatory after all, according to a new study of satellite images.
A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think. The birth of ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a professor in the department of classics and ancient history at Durham University A striking ...