While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

How did he rise to power? Was he a brutal dictator or ... proclaiming him as King of the Jews — not just in Hebrew, but in Greek and Latin. Intentional or not, it seemed like Pilate wanted ...

Raised by Queen Hippolyta and gifted with blessings from the Greek gods, she’s been a comic ... Voiced by Carl Lumbly in ‘Justice League’ cartoons, he’s a telepathic tank since the ...

Historians typically identify the Greek Bronze ... age was the rise of the polis, or city state, which became the predominant unit of political organization. Although several cities throughout ancient ...

Step into the brutal and fascinating world of Ancient Rome’s gladiators. This animated documentary explores the origins, ...

Mr. Tertitskiy, a South Korea-based historian, has pulled off a rare and impressive biographical feat—his “Accidental Tyrant” is a book-length account of the life of Kim, the founder of ...

Or sign-in if you have an account. At Passover — observed this week — divine liberation from a fearsome tyrant is solemnly remembered. The Pharaoh of ancient Egypt presided over a dominant ...

Between 1998 and 2023, the number of cases of bowel cancer in 15 to 49-year-olds went up from 6.3 per 100,000 to 9.5, a rise of nearly 50%. More research is needed to find the causes for the rise and ...

My late classics professor taught me that Ancient Greek tragedy dramatized different points of view, insisted on empathy, and ...

Bezinović presents the story of D’Annunzio’s autocratic rise, reign, and fall in a way that’s as unusual as it is revelatory. He gathers a teeming array of archival material and a teeming ...