When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object's owner authorized ...

Once used by Nazis to label gay men, the pink triangle was reclaimed in the 1970s and reborn as an era of queer resistance.

He was the mathematician who ran through the streets shouting “Eureka!” — but that was only a glimpse of his genius.

In the beginning, there were only myths. For the Greeks, the island of Crete was a distant and strange land and yet the site of some their most important traditions: Zeus was taken there to save him ...

The World as a Labyrinth” presents the artist’s ceramic cosmologies, enigmatic bronze narrative and visionary cosmic paintings.

Iklaina in Peloponnese was a major center of Mycenaean culture and findings indicate that it may be the first city-state in ...

The enigmatic script Linear A has long been one of antiquity's most enduring mysteries. Emanating from Bronze Age Crete, its undecipherable cryptic symbols have frustrated researchers, historians, and ...

In other words, you’re constantly battling the feeling that there’s simply not enough time. But what if you could reframe the way you think about time? Well, you can. It involves learning a little ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered the text on the Rosetta stone, opening a window into ancient Egyptian civilization. The stone had been ...

Seeing some images of olden times may seem somewhat cartoonish. Because these events happened a long time ago, they can appear to be overly simplified and unrealistic. However, what isn’t amusing at ...