In the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome, the harpies were a group of animal-human hybrid monsters like the sirens and the sphinx.

One immediately notices that Ancient Greek writing exclusively used uppercase letters, without any lowercase ones. This ...

Wolverhampton Literature Festival is back next weekend, bringing literature, poetry, music and dance together with over 90 ...

But these tablets weren’t strictly business—they also contained literature that lives on today, including the The Epic of ...

Archaeologists uncovered this astonishingly well-preserved Zapotec tomb in San Pablo Huitzo in central Oaxaca thanks to an ...

Calliope Callisto Clark and the Search for Wisdom introduces timeless philosophy through the relatable story of a girl ...

From the mischievous Cupid of Roman art to Plato’s lofty ideas of Platonic love, Greek and Roman literature reveals a complex, often chaotic view of romance. Poets like Ovid and Sulpicia chronicled ...

Rashtrapati Bhavan replaced British colonial texts with 2,300 books in 11 Indian classical languages, called Granth Kutir.

Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1935, von Däniken rose to prominence when he published Chariots of the Gods? while working as a hotel manager in Davos. The book posed a provocative question that ...

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It is obvious to any astronomer that some of the brightest objects in the night sky are the planets. It is thus mysterious that there are so few references to the planets in ancient literature. Prior ...

A paper by Dr. Kathryn Caliva Smart, assistant professor of History, has been included in a volume of essays on ancient myths and religion published by Brill. The collection, “Navigating the Study of ...