The Chimera was a fearsome creature from Ancient Greece that was a mixture of animal features, said to inhabit Lycia in Asia Minor or Anatolia, Turkey. What features you ask? Well, take a lion ...

Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged mainland to bustling Athens, we trace the rise of Greek culture.

Archaeologists recently excavated an ancient workshop in Greece, revealing a trove of unfinished projects and other curiosities. The project was announced by Greece's Ministry of Culture in a ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered for decadent banquets called symposia. Not only an occasion for thinking and philosophizing, the symposium was also a place for enjoying women, wine ...

Historians recently unveiled their findings about an ancient purple dye factory located in modern-day Israel — revealing a glimpse into life during biblical times. In an article recently ...

Scientists use laser technology to uncover more Mayan ruins 03:10. Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Mayan city nearly 3,000 years old in northern Guatemala, with pyramids and ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America about 6,000 years ago.

An outlier among alligators Since the mid-19th century, fossils of Deinosuchus have been found on both sides of the ancient seaway and belong to at least two species.

THE GOUFFE CASE (434 pp.)-Joachim Maass-Harper ($4.95). This new novel took 13 years to write and is well worth it. Based on an actual 1889 Paris murder, it offers a long, luxuriant plunge into the ...

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘La Chimera’ on Hulu, the Josh O’Connor-Alice Rohrwacher Collab You Didn’t Know Would Blow You Away By John Serba Published Aug. 16, 2024, 6:10 p.m. ET ...