The latest scroll to emerge from the ash of Vesuvius does not tidy up Stoicism so much as complicate it, by setting a rival ...

Acrobats from a Mexican theater company perform the show titled “Mortal Leap into Xibalba,” which reinterprets a myth from a ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris ...

Raise Animals is a tycoon simulator on Roblox where you can catch animals from different biomes and earn money by showcasing them in your zoo. Whenever you spawn into the minigame, these biomes will ...

It is fair to say that the family tree of ancient humans is not written in stone. Just take the case of the Denisovans, the enigmatic ancient humans who were, until recently, known only from a few ...

A woodcut illustration of "The Yellow Emperor", and Su Nü Jing, published in 1920 in Japan. | Book in public domain, wood carving by Gan Bozong (Tang period, 618-907), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ...

It was my mother who first mentioned the Queen of Sheba. The royal name is one of my earliest memories. When someone annoyed her, I’d wait for my mother to mutter, “Who does she think she is—the Queen ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a more complex rise to fame than one might think. The birth of ...

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