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Alcidamas condemned slavery in Ancient Greek society, arguing it violates human nature and exposes the artificiality of ...

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For millennia, ancient civilizations have left us clues about the importance of living in harmony with nature. Despite the ...

Ghosts stories appear in several surviving texts from ancient Rome. What do they reveal about the people who told them?

Scientists dug into paleofeces for a new study, learning some very intimate details about how long-ago people lived.

For the first time in two decades, tourists are able to get an unobstructed view of a famous Greek landmark, according to the ...

Among the golden pages of the history of Ancient Greece there are pages blemished with the acts of traitors, men who betrayed ...

A German woman returned a 2,400 year-old relic from Ancient Olympia in Greece after taking it from the site in the 1960s. The ...