Hippocratic physicians introduced the first evidence‑based, ethical approach to diagnosing and treating. But their ...

New research shows many ancient societies shared power and limited rulers, revealing that democracy existed far beyond Greece and Rome.

The only surviving funerary relief of the ancient Greek world depicting twin babies in the same arms was unveiled in Athens.

Ancient Athens celebrated the Spring Equinox as one of the most important feasts, a celebration of resurrection following ...

A new study has challenged the long-held belief that democratic governance was exclusively born in the classical Mediterranean world of Greece and Rome. By analyzing archaeological and historical ...

Nathan Arrington, an assistant professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University, sometimes visits the cemetery near campus to think. He is an expert on another burial ground, thousands of ...

THE Athens of the fourth and fifth centuries before Christ, which may properly enough be called the Periclean Athens, has been an extinct community for more than two thousand years, and yet it is more ...