British author J. R. R. Tolkien's tale of the fall of Númenor was inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Atlantis.

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

It seems like humans always need to know who or what is the best in any category. Renaissance people were no different. A ...

You'd be hard-pressed to find a culture that hasn't been influenced by Greek mythology in some way ... Even today, references to Greek myths permeate art, literature, academics…and branding. That's ...

On Tuesday 3rd September 2019, MP Anna Turley tweeted a photo from inside the House of Commons of fellow MP Jacob Rees-Mogg reclining on the government benches.

Dr Thomas Strasser of Providence College, Rhode Island says “This is the first palaeolithic art ever found in Greece and it’s significant because it deepens the history of art there by many thousands ...

It is one of the intriguing contradictions of the Renaissance that the art for which this period is justly famous was the product of a society mired in corruption and notorious for its violence – on ...