Plato was one of the most important ancient philosophers. He wrote a series of dialogues before he died in 348/347 B.C.

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Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

You'd be wrong to think the ancient Greek gods bled red like you and me, as ichor was the substance that defined their ...

A manuscript discovered in the Judean desert contains trial notes on an intricate tax-evasion scheme that involved forgery, ...

Almost 4,000 years ago, an unknown scholar in ancient Mesopotamia wrote the first known book on a series of clay tablets. The ...

Ancient Greek mythology and art depict lions. Did lions once live in Greece? Larry Rideout | Boston Yes! Lions have a huge historic range. Evidence has been found that as far back as the ...

A crumbling inscription in Greek caught my eye ... who had retired to a village near Hisarlik, the site of ancient Troy, the city of Homer’s Iliad near the Dardanelles; a Cambridge classicist ...

From Rome’s holiest texts to a Chinese manuscript that wouldn’t have fit inside a shipping container, here’s our top ten list of the most important ancient documents that no longer exist ...