Rain fell in sheets on the broken columns and stone blocks. I stood on the ancient ground where Agamemnon, Socrates and Cicero, among others, had humbly stood, hoping to get answers to their big ...

For centuries, the Oracle of Delphi shaped the fate of kings and empires—but were her divine visions really caused by intoxicating fumes rising from the earth? Explore the science behind ancient ...

Have you ever been so high that time ceased to flow? That both past and future overlapped and the present became magical? Suddenly, you possessed insight into reality, the universe, or parallel ...

The oracle of Delphi in Greece was the telephone psychic of ancient times: People came from all over Europe to call on the Pythia at Mount Parnassus to have their questions about the future answered.

Dating back to 1400 BC, the Oracle of Delphi was the most important shrine in all Greece, and in theory all Greeks respected its independence. Built around a sacred spring, Delphi was considered to be ...

According to tradition, the oracle at Delphi worked this way: In an underground room in the temple of Apollo, a specially trained woman would sit on a tripod placed over a fissure in the bedrock ...

“Delphi is simply a flashpoint, a test case, for all the economic and social trends that are on a collision course in our country and around the globe,” says Steve Miller, the CEO of Delphi, the auto ...

The Oracle of Delphi was the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, and a major site for the worship of the god Apollo. Built around a sacred spring, Delphi was considered to be the ...

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