Alexander had a love-hate relationship with his father, King Philip II of Macedonia. While at times he appeared to be the ...

Let’s pull back the curtain on the true lives of ancient Sparta’s most feared fighters.1. They Chose Their HeritageThe ...

Why can we say that 146 BCE was crucial in the formation of the Roman Empire, perhaps more than any other single year?

Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map ...

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In 1901 the Jewish National Fund was established with the purpose of reclaiming the ancestral homeland of the Jews (Israel/Palestine). This was done by PURCHASING LAND from the Turkish rulers ...

The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...

Athena, a goddess of wisdom and warfare and the patron goddess of Athens, was one of the most popular deities in the Greek ...

Guest: Michael Albertus is professor of political science at the University of Chicago. The author of four previous books, his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, ...