One of the things I never wrapped my head around was how the Roman Republic managed to conquer the mighty city-states and ...

Greece's island of Samos was the birthplace of Pythagoras and its fascinating history goes back to the myth of the Argonauts ...

For nearly two millennia, a library entombed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius remained silent. Among its shelves—now ...

Since the dawn of human civilization, philosophy has shaped the way we live, govern, worship, and relate to one another. Its influence spans continents ...

A paper by Dr. Kathryn Caliva Smart, assistant professor of History, has been included in a volume of essays on ancient myths ...

The nature of time has plagued thinkers for as long as we've tried to understand the world we live in. Intuitively, we know what time is, but try to explain it, and we end up tying our minds in knots.