The kylix drinking cup in ancient Greek symposiums revealed who was an aristocrat and who didn’t belong to the elite circle.

A study provides new insights into the many overlooked women scribes who wrote manuscripts in the Middle Ages.

How the Greek alphabet is misused and appropriated, from tombstone misspellings to pop culture distortions. Kalimniou's ...

Jessy Ardern’s name is at the top of the script for Prophecy, but the playwright doesn’t recall where she was when she put it ...

The Greek god who gave fire to humans has a lot to answer for, from internet to nuclear bombs The other day I fell into the Prometheus trap; or rather, my car did. When ...

It was 70 years ago today, on 16 March 1955, that Adhemar Ferreira da Silva became the first man to triple jump beyond 16.50m ...

There are also nonfiction flicks about cave diving ( 4Caves—4Seasons ), a massive emigration of Greek laborers to Germany in ...

Ruth Stout didn’t plow, dig, water, or weed—and now her “no-work” method is everywhere. But behind her secret to the perfect ...

Stoker was clearly influenced by Gerard's writings, and her description of Nosferatu is familiar to those who have read ...

East Bay theater-makers Itamar Moses and Gaby Alter created the musical comedy now playing at American Conservatory Theater.

Just over a century ago, Londoners heard the first recorded announcement telling people using escalators to stand on the ...

Irish whiskey was, they'll tell you in Ireland, the first whiskey. The word "whiskey" is Irish. "Uisge," in Gaelic, is water. "Beatha" is life. Water of life — "aqua vitae" in Latin, a catchall phrase ...