Curators from the Rijksmuseum were at an auction six months ago when they spotted an unusual lot – a condom dating all the ...

An almost 200-year-old condom - in "mint condition" - has just gone on display at an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in ...

While Helen may have had the face that launched a thousand ships, the origins of the Trojan War are much more complex than an ...

While traveling the Greek world in the 2nd century CE, the geographer Pausanias visited the statue of Zeus at Olympia. The ...

14A. “Empire often on the mind” comes from the TikTok trend about how (typically) men often think about the ROMAN Empire. A ...

A countdown of the five craziest Greek gods. Who will be #1? The most jealous, angry, violent, fun-loving, or creative?

The names of Greek islands depend on spelling, grammar, ancient Greek mythology, and the geomorphology of the place.

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Greek mythology keeps showing up in pop culture across books, movies and video games. In the last few years, animated shows have also started using these stories in fresh and creative ways. Some shows ...

The Epic Of Gilgamesh - written by a Middle Eastern scholar 2,500 years before the birth of Christ - commemorated the life of the ruler of the city of Uruk, from which Iraq gets its name. Now, a ...

Followers of the 12 Greek Gods, who, according to mythology ... For example, Poseidon is the God of the Sea; Hera, the Goddess of Marriage; and Aphrodite is the Goddess of Love and Romance. Apollonius ...

Similar to the Lavender, the heather flower’s meaning comes from its genus name, Calluna vulgaris, which stems from the Greek word ... proclaims “I love you” to its recipient. The Greeks associated ...