The names of the days in Greek represent a historical shift, with Christian traditions deliberately overwriting the pagan calendar.

A newly analyzed Greek inscription indicates that the Great Mosque of Homs likely stands on the site of the Roman Temple of the Sun, revealing a layered history of pagan, Christian, and Islamic ...

The history and techniques of Pankration, an ancient Greek martial art, have had a significant impact on modern mixed martial ...

In a recent New York Times op-ed called “Donald Trump, Pagan King,” journalist and filmmaker Leighton Woodhouse highlights the apparent contradiction between the Trump administration’s violent “might ...

Readers respond to a guest essay on the president’s behavior and the ancient roots of human dignity and compassion.

A recently discovered Greek inscription at the base of a column inside the Great Mosque of Homs in Syria has rekindled a longstanding scholarly debate about the exact location of the Temple of the sun ...

Archaeologists brought in for a routine survey ahead of a hospital construction project in the Romanian city of Constanta ...

A newly examined Greek inscription uncovered inside Homs’ Great Mosque of al-Nuri is reopening an old argument with big implications: does the mosque sit directly over the long-lost Elagabalus Temple, ...

The Goat Festival, particularly the Skyros Goat Festival, is indeed a celebration in tune with Dionysian traditions. This ...

The 90 million Persians are very self-consciously not Arabs – ethnically, they are Indo-European, not Semitic while their ...

The Greek seaside town of Galaxidi has exploded into a messy “flour war” as many of its 1,700 residents and many visitors pelted each other with bags of dyed flour. The more prudent ones ...

Jesus taught a different kind of altruism, the altruism that is not based only on those socially and biologically related to ...