It’s hard to say for sure, but something special happens when an old instrument meets contemporary creativity. These aren’t ...

Pythagoras believed in reincarnation, remembered his past lives, and saw the soul as deeply connected to the cosmos.

We walk you through the incestuous, murderous, and surprisingly relatable world of Egyptian deities at The Met.

In Angel Studios' Book of Samuel adaptation 'David,' there's less texture to the characters than there is to their richly ...

The most important theorem we learnt in childhood carries the name of a Greek philosopher, but not necessarily the legacy.

Equal parts strange and terrifying: these are some of the many monsters that have haunted Greek mythology since antiquity.

When musician Tharun Sekar built his first yaazh, he wasn’t just recreating an ancient Tamil instrument; he was unknowingly striking the first note of a cultural revival. In less than a year that ...

Sobek, crocodile-headed god of the Nile; Sekhmet, leonine goddess of war; Anubis, jackal god of the underworld; and Hathor, mother goddess with a cow’s horns: The ancient Egyptian pantheon of gods was ...

Life in many medieval towns revolved around constructing a cathedral, a massive undertaking that took generations of work by everyone from artists and architects to prisoners of war. Work in ...

The project aims to produce a record of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland, though the majority of these words have already been lost to history Two recently opened stops by the ...

The magazine’s most-read articles of the year included a deep dive on the Scopes “monkey trial,” an interview with award-winning documentarians and a profile of quintuplets who found fame during the ...