Depictions of the bee appear very early in the development of coinage in ancient Greece, which may have started in Ephesus.

I have always been fascinated by the idea of walking through history, imagining the lives of people who lived thousands of ...

Symmetrical arrangements of botanical motifs indicate a grasp of spatial division long before the advent of formal written ...

Gambling, one of the most common vices in the world, has a long history that dates all the way back to Ancient Greece.

The expansion of one of the Mediterranean’s strongest powers wasn’t only driven by conquest, but also infrastructure. By ...

One of the greatest stories ever told, Homer’s Odyssey follows Odysseus on his perilous journey home from Troy. This ...