Flowers, often part of Minoan and Egyptian art, were symbols of life, the afterlife, and rebirth, according to a study of ...

The ancient Greeks were incredibly talented mathematicians—but they rarely used numbers in their math. Their particular specialty, geometry, dances around actual quantities, focusing on higher-level ...

Greek minuscule reshaped Byzantine writing, preserving ancient knowledge and influencing the evolution of modern Greek script ...

History has long pitted Persian and Greek societies as moral opposites—the former, a culture of hedonists, and the latter defined by no-frills self discipline. A new exhibition titled “Luxury and ...