The exhibition "A Journey to Ancient Greece" celebrated its grand opening , at the Liangzhou Museum in China's Zhejiang Province.

During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great ...

5th century BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from ...

As one of history's most famous figures, many stop to wonder what Cleopatra VII Philopator really looked like.

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world. Early Roman Empire depiction of a Freedman and Freedwoman, 30-15 BCE. British Museum, London, UK.

If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don't just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus Gellius, who lived in the 2nd century CE, gives us a ...

Parties in ancient Greece were wild, with evidence of copious alcohol and sex. That’s the popular idea that endures today. But there were different types of parties at the time. Not all involved lots ...

Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia Parties in ancient Greece were wild, with evidence of copious alcohol and sex. That’s the popular idea that endures today.

Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West's first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on water. Roman encyclopedist ...

Jemima McPhee receives funding from an Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Scholarship. Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often ...

True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink Late civil rights leader Lawson, who died in 2024, offers an engrossing behind-the-scenes look at his work ...

The ancient Greeks ate a plant based diet and Diane explores these roots and principles. This episode is inspired by Pythagoras, the ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician. Diane, takes a deep ...