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.

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

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 ...

I arrive in Santorini in early June not with the story brief of drinking the island’s addictive dry, acidic wines morning, noon and night, but rather to sample the Greek family-owned Empiria Group’s ...

A recent re-examination of artifacts from Soviet era digs in the Dzhetyasar territory in southwest Kazakhstan has identified a fourth-century AD lyre that shows remarkable similarity with the one ...

Posts on Hackaday sometimes trend a little bit retro, but rarely do we cover hacks that reach back into the Bronze Age. Still, when musician [Peter Pringle] put out a video detailing how he replicated ...

Academy Village resident Anne Kilmer will speak on "Ancient Music" at a special Arizona Senior Academy presentation Wednesday. Scheduled for 3:30 p.m., the program will also include harpist Lorna ...

Dragons, court fools, valiant knights and mythical creatures taken out of the familiar context of stern woodcuts and dour prints, instead transported to a realm of vibrant colors and amorphous liquid ...

Chris started gaming in the 8-bit era so writing game reviews seemed like a natural choice of activity to protect his brain from further atrophy during his final year in a psychiatric penitentiary.