Ancient people of Mount Athos, Greece probably owed their longevity to their bizarre eating habits. Let's take a look at the snake-eaters.

Smith & Taylor Classics is an imprint of Unnamed Press, founded in 2024, combining Unnamed’s mission to uplift the unlikely and unexpected from around the world with editors Allison Miriam Smith and ...

How far back does the rich history of Italian olives and oil stretch? My new research, published in the American Journal of Archaeology, synthesizing and reevaluating existing archaeological evidence, ...

Allan Massie, who has died aged 87, was a critic and commentator of great seriousness and astonishing fecundity, as well as one of Scotland’s finest novelists; his series of fictions examining the ...

Discover the amazing true story of how the Girl Guides worked undercover as spies during the First World War, lose yourself ...

We want to be clear here, this is not an exhaustive list of the absolute oldest roads in the United Kingdom. For that, we'd ...

From Vespa tours to viewing private collections and relaxing in Roman baths, see the best of the city at its top attractions ...

Our understanding of Ancient Greece relies on the few surviving books, among the countless lost ones, shaping what we know ...

The income of Roman soldiers is a topic that many avoid. After all, studying the accounting and calculating the income of a Roman soldier does not arouse the same interest as the legionaries ...

A young woman buried in China’s Tarim Basin some 2,000 years ago went to the afterlife accompanied by the height of fashion. The woman, who was wrapped in a felt blanket and buried in a coffin ...

For the first time, the House of the Griffins, an ancient Roman residence dating back more than 2,000 years, has opened to the public through virtual means. Nestled on the historic Palatine Hill, the ...