While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Alexander the Great riding his horse Bucephalus, Public Domain. Bucephalus, the majestic black horse with a white star on his brow, is one of the most famous horses in history. His fame and popularity ...

Dagli Orti / Getty Images I drive on a dirt road in Northern Greece through the ruins and spectral presence of a once-great ... horses were waiting for him. Three bodyguards who were friends of ...

It was a long stretch of time that spanned from the building of the Oracle of Delphi shrine in 1200 BCE to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 ... the Trojan-horse-building genius in Homer ...

With easy access to the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Epsom is the perfect place for weekend rambles, ...

The United States of America isn't short on symbols that evoke a sense of national patriotism—from "the stars and stripes" to the Statue of Liberty ... complement to "The Great Seal" of the ...

Epsom has been named one of the best places to live in England — and it’s not hard to see why. The latest rankings from property experts Garrington placed Epsom second in their nationwide list of most ...

known as “The Great One”, is no longer cherished by many Canadians and it is all because of his friendship with Canadians’ public enemy No 1: Donald Trump. The Gretzky statue outside of ...

In 1828, in a famous poem, “Poltava,” the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin depicted Mazepa as a ... calling it “an act of genocide”. A statue of Peter the Great in front of the museum was wrapped up in ...

From its sculpture garden, featuring works by Alexander Calder and Henry Moore ... of disparate works — which here included marble statues retrieved from the ocean floor, an 18th-century ...