From the Library of Alexandria to the lost works of Plato, the world is littered with ancient writings containing long-lost ...

The story of Phidippides and Pan, the god of the wild, stands as the most baffling episode of the Ancient Greek world—one of ...

According to National Geographic, the map depicts distances between gates in the wall surrounding the Mesopotamian city of Nippur, but for decades experts questioned its accuracy. The locations of ...

History Hit, the streaming service and podcast network founded by Dan Snow, has announced the release of its latest original documentary, Ancient Adventures: Li ...

Ancient Persians believed the sky was blue because it reflected a massive sapphire beneath the Earth, giving the stone cosmic symbolism. Kings, priests, and rulers wore sapphires to signal wisdom, ...

“G reek literature contains the germs of almost everything, so you can treat of almost all tendencies in treating of it,” the Hellenist Gilbert Murray wrote in the year 1900. One and a quarter ...

Curiosity about the past isn’t just academic. It’s a way of understanding who we are and how we became this version of ...

Channel 5 has boarded as the first broadcast partner for the Keshet International and SandStone Global co-production Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The three-part history docuseries, presented by ...

The Department of History at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) invites applications for a full-time, substantiation-track post at the rank of assistant professor in the field of Ancient World ...