This is the second installment of Edmonds resident Nathaniel Brown’s recent travels to Greece. You can read part 1 here. Patra My driver to Patra had never been in ...

Spotting a rare foreigner in the southern Syrian city of Nawa, Khalil approaches with a business proposal: bring him a “very ...

Their enemies portrayed them as barbarians, but their artifacts tell a different story. Between their weapons, jewelry, and ...

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 endings to players’ favorite games have been of special significance since long before the medium began emulating the cinematic greats. Starting on the NES and early home computers, video games ...

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

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday that all 32 members of the NATO alliance should do their part in ...

Cimon was a statesman and general who died conquering the Persians in Cyprus, but his men abandoned the siege to give him a ...

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 ...

On June 10, 2025, tourists raced go-karts on the Cao Nguyen Hoa circuit in Da Lat, Vietnam. Helmet-cam footage shows sharp ...

Previously published as Essential histories 36: The Greek and Persian Wars 499-386 BC, Essential histories 27: The Peloponnesian War 431-404 BC, and Essential... Skip to main content. Ask the ...