Slaves were everywhere in the Greek world. Take a look at any antiquities museum and you will very likely find artefacts that unfortunately owe their existence in some way to slavery. Consider the ...

Feliks Jasieński in samurai helmet & Japanese kimono ... the first ritual suicide after World War II. Mishima’s seppuku was a carefully thought-out part of the work: on the eve of his death, the ...

The history of Modern Greek at Harvard University began in 1828, just a few years after the Greek War of Independence started ...

What it tells us about the past: In 1860, a farmer was tilling a field in central Slovakia when he unearthed a spectacular paneled gold Byzantine crown. For more than a century, experts have argued ...