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The monument’s mysterious past has spawned countless tales and theories. According to folklore, Stonehenge was created by ...
The symbol of Western Civilization, the Acropolis' Parthenon was converted to a Christian church for almost a millennium, ...
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Evidence indicates that these people held positions of power because of their gender ambiguity, not despite it.
Gambling, one of the most common vices in the world, has a long history that dates all the way back to Ancient Greece.
On this day in 1822, during the Greek War of Independence, revolutionary leaders Dimitrios Ypsilantis and Theodoros ...
These 15 Greek god animals served as sacred symbols and divine messengers in ancient mythology — and their meanings still ...
In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance hall completed during the mid-third century a.d. is the only surviving part of a temple dedicated to the creator god Khnum. Some 100 major ...
Today, trans people face politicization of their lives and vilification from politicians, media and parts of broader society.
After a century of searching, a chance discovery led archaeologists to one of the most important sanctuaries in the ancient Greek world Archaeologists first explored Eretria in the late nineteenth ...