Culture & Thought

If you fell ill in ancient Greece, your experience would be a strange mix of the spiritual and the scientific.

Sparta the name alone evokes images of unmatched discipline and military prowess.

Herodotus, the fifth-century BC Greek writer, is hailed as 'The Father of History'.

When you think of gods, you might imagine perfect, all-knowing beings.

The ancient Egyptians believed that the body was essential for the soul's journey into the afterlife.

A giant wooden horse, a ten-year siege, and a war sparked by the abduction of the world's most beautiful woman.

We celebrate ancient Athens as the birthplace of democracy, a revolutionary system that gave power to the people.

Cleopatra.

In the world of ancient Greece, a cradle of philosophy and democracy, a dark reality existed for a huge portion of the population: slavery.

For centuries, the Greek phalanx was the most feared military formation in the ancient world—a seemingly unstoppable hedgehog of spears.

Alexander the Great.

When you think of ancient Greece, you might picture a world dominated entirely by men.

For the ancient Egyptians, death was not an end but the beginning of a perilous journey.

When you hear the name Tutankhamun, you probably think of a golden death mask and whispers of a deadly curse.

Have you ever wondered what life was like beyond the shimmering gold masks and towering pyramids?