What did ancient Greeks wear in the winter? A natural question as all statues of Greeks in antiquity depict them dressed in ...

How many of us knew that the city of Gaza, the war-torn Palestinian enclave, has a Greek past that defined the history of the ...

Satyrs were creatures linked strongly with Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, pleasure, and theater. These party-loving, ...

Art from ancient Thrace is often flashy and brusque, as befits a warrior tribe. The archaic society was known for the prowess ...

This is oil wrestling, an ancient sport practised in Turkey and ... I recognise him from the statues at the stadium’s entrance — he’s among a select pantheon of legendary pehlivans ...

According to Egyptian legend, the goddess Sekhmet was created by Ra, who wanted her to destroy humans who were disobedient to his rule. But Sekhmet had such uncontrollable bloodlust that she almost ...

Some communities have developed techniques to help them carry heavier loads. Here's what we can learn from them.

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

But in the pantheon of American art, Atlanta has its own under-the-radar masterwork: Hale Aspacio Woodruff’s epic six-part mural “The Art of the Negro” which has hung for six decades in the Trevor ...

This is the twelvth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological ...

I couldn’t move at the pace his soldiers ... in northern Greece you’ll find Pella, the ruined city where Alexander was born, as well as the tomb of Philip and other Macedonian royals in a spectacular ...