When we talk about “academy“, The first image that comes to mind is probably that of a temple of knowledge: ...

Chandragupta Maurya, India's first emperor, overthrew the Nanda dynasty. He unified the subcontinent and established the ...

The Hunger Games movies have been jumping around streaming services over the years, but it’s been a while since they’ve been ...

Richard Whittaker It’s once again Shark Week, and creative kiddos who love sharks are in for a treat at this crafternoon.

The aspect ratio transition at the start of the Quarter Quell in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is still iconic and ...

Shakespeare maintained a wide-ranging interest in different forms of “natural philosophy,” which combined what we now call science, philosophy, and religion. Drawing on the history of science, the ...

Some modern scholars believe these to be forgeries written later in antiquity, designed to give the otherwise shadowy figure ...

Some of the key historians who wrote about the lives of ancient Greek women were Plutarch, Thucydides and Herodotus. There were also many stories and plays that give us representations of women in ...

The philosopher Plutarch also wrote extensively about the oracles, as he was a priest of Apollo at Delphi. Luckily for us, the Hellenic Museum has its very own oracle. People can ask a question via ...

Homer tells us that ancient Greek hero Odysseus spent seven years on the island of Ogygia, a place that could be Ireland ...

Cimon was a statesman and general who died conquering the Persians in Cyprus, but his men abandoned the siege to give him a ...

The young conqueror fell suddenly and fatally ill at an all-night feast. Now, a Stanford historian has found a potential ...