Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no ...

The world’s oldest erotic graffiti was discovered in 2014 in Astypalaia, a remote island in Dodecanese, Greece.

It begins with prehistoric picture writing, progresses through Egyptian hieroglyphics, and examines the development of the Phoenician, Greek, and Roman alphabets. The film highlights the alphabet ...

Croatia In 301 A.D., the Emperor Diocletian made a bold but ultimately unsuccessful bid to address the inflation that was rampaging across the eastern half of the divided Roman Empire. Prices of ...

While global attention is focused on US President Donald Trump’s policies toward Europe, China, and Russia, his impact on Africa and Latin America could be just as profound. In the near term ...

Jones taught himself Sanskrit to interpret local laws and suggested that the ancient Indian language had a common ancestor with Latin, Greek and Old Iranian. DNA evidence shows that the proto ...

the use of perfumes and aromatic substances in ancient Greek and Roman statues. This revelation challenges the long-held view of classical sculpture as merely a visual art form, introducing a ...