The next time you watch the extravaganza that is the modern Olympic Games, consider this: It all started with a simple footrace. To history lovers like me, the Sanctuary of Olympia — the religious ...

And sip on cucumber water while wearing a cushy robe, preferably in a dimly ... the Aire Experience is inspired by ancient bathing rituals from the Roman, Greek, and Ottoman civilizations.

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In The Odyssey, Tom Holland will appear as Telemachus, the son of Odysseus and Penelope, who goes on a journey to find his ...

In ancient Greece, most clothing was much simpler and ... Married women wore a stola, a long, pleated, sleeveless robe. However, as time went on, clothing styles in Rome changed, with the toga ...

Patrick’s picture will adorn greeting cards: an aged, bearded bishop in flowing robes, grasping a bishop’s staff and ... Helias!” – the name of the Greek sun god. The rock disappeared. Patrick took it ...

Neither Sarah nor Hagar/Ha-jar are mentioned by name in the Qur’an, but the story of Ha-jar’s exile from Abraham’s home is traditionally understood to be referred to in a line from Ibrāhīm’s prayer in ...

On March 25, the renowned Sri Lankan social anthropologist Prof. Gananath Obeyesekere of Princeton University, passed away ...

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Aeschylus is difficult not because he is ancient, but because he is honest. He offers no reassurances, no resolutions we can ...