BCE, a poetess named Sappho lived on a rocky Greek island far out in the Aegean Sea. She wrote about her love for women in ...

Mesopotamia, located in the fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was one of the cradles of civilization around 6000 years ago and the birthplace of the first writing system. Each ...

A full moon, known as the strawberry moon, has risen over the Parthenon in Athens, Greece Tuesday night. The spectacle ...

Cressida — Greek for “gold,” this name has been used in everything from Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida to Suzanne Collins ...

Ancient Greek mercenaries were a ubiquitous force on the battlefields of the ancient Mediterranean where they fought for ...

Ancient Greek trireme warships, which had three banks of oarsmen, were so effective that they enabled the rise of Athens as a ...