Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

Granite caves in India, such as those at Barabar and Nagarjuna, feature near-perfectly smooth walls and high-precision finishes that continue to puzzle researchers. The video explores whether these ...

Over the next several hundred years, marriage evolved into a widespread institution embraced by the ancient Hebrews, Greeks and Romans. But back then, marriage had little to do with love or with ...

A tutor had considerable powers, and could force the woman out of one marriage and into another ... with the sex manuals of Elephantis. In Ancient Rome as in Victorian England, virtuous restraint ...

Who were the women who inhabited ancient Pompeii? A new exhibition of art, objects, and personal testimonies has the answers.

Apollonius of Tyana, often seen as the ancient Greek Jesus, faces a chilling encounter with a vampire-like demon in a ...

Unlike the romantic weddings of today, marriage in ancient Rome was an arrangement between two families. Like much of Roman society, it was highly structured but also logical and, in some ways ...

THE learned and ingenious author of “Primitive Marriage” has in this volume republished that excellent work, appending to it his paper on “Kinship in Ancient Greece,” which originally ...

Scientists studied the genetic makeup of seven Maya individuals—including one who was the victim of human sacrifice.