The 20th-century art historian Kenneth Clark made a distinction between the “naked,” meaning unclothed and ashamed, and the “nude,” meaning the body in its most beautiful form. Most people today use ...

Everyone has an approximate timeline of inventions in their heads. Sunglasses? Probably the 1920s. Vending machines? Sometime ...

Alexis Tsipras, the combative anti‑austerity leader who railed against Brussels during Greece’s debt crisis, has returned to politics ahead of elections next year.

In the sixth century, Nubia became one of Africa’s major early Christian regions. But its conversion was more a political ...

Design throughout celebrates the hotel’s status as a modernist landmark, from the circular bar in the Athenian Lounge to the kidney-shaped end tables in guest rooms. A private running track on the ...

Dressed in male fighter clothing and riding horseback into battle, Captain Pelagia became a legendary resistance leader in ...

The Greek genocide and the Pontic genocide instigated by the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish national movement is a dark ...

Much of the world is reeling from heinous realizations about men following the newly released tranche of Epstein files: that men in elite posts across government, business and academia have run the ...

Ancient Olympians were renowned for their strength and agility, but were any of these athletes women? And were there other sporting opportunities in which women in ancient Greece could compete? The ...

No doubt some people are already thinking about the vegetable seeds they’ll be planting this spring in their backyard plots. David Stuart, an Albuquerque ethno-anthropologist, has completed about six ...

This article originally appeared in The Conversation. 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 ...