President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed off on the WPA helping to build the structures where the story of Jesus would be ...

Some 100 major temples towered ... or hypsoma in Greek, which holds that the planets’ connections with particular zodiac signs have an impact on the human condition. Ancient astrologers believed ...

April is the month when Greece quietly transforms into a natural garden. For travellers who love nature in full bloom, here are the most breathtaking places to witness Greece’s spring flowers — each ...

She made the discovery after immersing herself in the works of Roman writers like Cicero and inscriptions on ancient Greek temples. In Delos, Greece, temple inscriptions show that some statues ...

A team of Egyptian and French archaeologists have discovered ancient artefacts dating back to a school known as the 'House of Life. The group were excavating an area near the Ramesseum Temple in ...

The statue of Antinous was discovered by a team of French archaeologists who in 1891 excavated the ancient site of Delphi.

Standing amid the rubble of a historic temple in Mandalay's ancient city of Inwa, a local guide and resident said on Sunday (April 6) that the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar just ...

Over 1,700 years ago, the ancient Greek Stoic philosopher, Epictetus, proposed an entirely different theory. He argued that it’s not life events that upset us, but our thoughts about them.

In a historic revival of Hellenic worship, a newly built temple dedicated to the ancient Greek gods Zeus and Pan has been unveiled in Arcadia. This marks the first such construction in nearly 1,700 ...

What could seem a narrow field of inquiry sheds new light on the Renaissance revival of classical letters, the Reformation and Western philhellenism. The Protestant tradition of studying Greek began ...

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