A new study finds that ancient Greek ship names carried symbolic meanings that shaped crew morale and identity in Athens’ ...

Britannia is the national symbol of the UK and can be seen across the country on multiple statues or old pound sterling coins ...

Whoever started putting the ancient Greek icon on American ... with the touch of his staff, a symbol of the messenger god’s power as a peacemaker. The actual design may just be a carryover ...

In his new book, “Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical ... Many of these have their roots in ancient Greece or Rome, and have evolved over time in ...

further illustrating the much-admired sophistication of architectural design in Ancient Greece. Access ramps were particularly common at healing sanctuaries, where many mobility-impaired people ...

Greece, in 1868, one goal was foremost in his mind: discovering the ancient city of Troy using Homer’s Iliad. Many historians believed the epic poem to be no more than a myth, but Schliemann was ...