What was Roman Egypt like? In what ways did it differ from when the Greeks had ruled it during the Ptolemaic period?

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

The Ancient Graffiti Project, a research team that has included around 70 people over the past several years to locate and study graffiti from the early Roman Empire, has painstakingly documented and ...

A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of ...

During the Victorian era ( 1837-1901), a practice called floriography became famous. It was the art of giving flowers with special meanings.

Don McCullin is not an easy man to reach. He has no email address, no mobile phone, and takes business calls via a landline ...