The Battle of Thermopylae and the fight of the 300 Spartans under the leadership of king Leonidas is a magnificent moment in ...

New lidar research shows the Maya civilization peaked at 16 million people, revealing dense cities and vast rural networks.

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Explore the ancient ruins of Paestum, Italy, a once-glorious Greek city with well-preserved temples, standing as a testament ...

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The Lycian Civilization, rooted in the rugged terrain of southwest Turkey, stands as one of the ancient world’s most fascinating yet overlooked cultures. Flourishing during the Iron Age and Classical ...

In ancient Greek mythology, Prometheus was the Titan who defied the gods to bring fire to humanity. This wasn’t just about ...

Far from a mere folly, the labyrinth is, like the serpent, the flood, and the trinity, something of a Jungian archetype, ...

If OLMC’s success is any measure, the classic approach may be the way to salvage Catholic education in the United States.

From ancient Teotihuacán to modern-day Costa Rica, discover why this vast cultural region was one of humanity's cradles of ...

In the sun-drenched summer of 1916, hundreds of volunteers from Samos joined Allied naval raids along the Asia Minor coast—an ...

Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science in the Soviet Union was nearing its apex. At the Kurchatov Institute in ...