According to Greek mythology, Perseus was the ancestor of the Persians through descendants who went by the names Perses and Achaemenes.

Before heroes like Heracles walked the earth, one Titan changed humanity forever. Prometheus defied Zeus, stole fire from ...

Elon Musk and his right-wing cohorts are furious over the possible inclusion of Elliot Page and Lupita Nyong’o in “The ...

This is the last installment in my series of posts on the Twelve Labors of Hercules in Why Myths Still Matter (see Parts 1 and 2). Here we consider the final five Herculean labors and their possible ...

The Pythagoras Cup, Greece’s ancient “greedy cup,” offers a playful way to explore Greek wine, Samos, Santorini, history, ...

Archaeologists in France uncovered fragments of a 2nd-century CE life-size mural of Greek hero Achilles in a Roman home near ...

For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.

A POLITICO analysis reveals judges have ruled against ICE detention practices in roughly 90 percent of cases since the agency ...

From the long-running series Supernatural to the HBO juggernaut Game of Thrones, these American fantasy shows are among the ...

Skywatchers of ancient times recognized the night sky as a way to measure time. Not only does it seem to revolve around the Earth every night, but it also ...

Judges across the country are overwhelmingly rejecting President Donald Trump’s hopes to indefinitely detain immigrants as ...

Greece will loan more than 100 ancient Olympic artefacts to Australia for a major Brisbane 2032 exhibition exploring the ...