A stunning Byzantine-era artwork from a Christian monastery in Israel was recently presented to the public for the first time ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

It is an excellent example of a provincial Roman capital during the empire and in the years afterwards. Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 De kolonie van Augusta Emerita – het ...

A countdown of the five craziest Greek gods. Who will be #1? The most jealous, angry, violent, fun-loving, or creative?

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At the Morgan Library, 15th-century illuminated atlases embody the medieval appetite for wonder and myth. If the past is a ...

But it is, unmistakably, about him. It is delivered by an antagonist in the fifth installment, Rogue Nation. And it cuts clean through the myth with utmost precision: “Ethan Hunt is a gambler. And one ...

Reviewed by Andrew Fuhrmann Ancient Greek and Roman myths involving the underworld tend to agree on the ease with which mortals can find the road to hell. In Anais Mitchell’s folk-musical ...

Casandra Ventura Fine told a jury on May 14 that her ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs physically abused her, from dragging her to knocking her on the side of her head. In one incident, during ...

The myths of lone geniuses and moments of inspiration undoubtedly capture the imagination. But the reality – of problems solved by groups of determined people over many years – is an even better story ...

An important figure in the story pertaining to the origin of the Latin alphabet is Evander of Pallantium. According to Greek and Roman mythology, one of the founding figures in Rome’s history was a ...

Mary Evans/Scala, Florence The Cumaean Sibyl loomed large in Roman mythology and was a favorite subject of Italian Renaissance artists including Michelangelo and Raphael. The sibyl lived in the ...