The project aims to produce a record of the Celtic languages spoken in Britain and Ireland, though the majority of these ...

The Ancient Greek winter revolved around Hestia’s hearth and the city’s sacred flame, signifying the importance of fire in ...

The fascination with Greek culture can be traced to the early modern period, from the Renaissance until the eighteenth century. During this era, European scholars – and later educated elites and a ...

In modern English, myrrh survives almost entirely as a symbolic word. It appears in religious narratives, historical accounts ...

A panel of appellate judges seemed skeptical during Thursday oral arguments that the Trump administration erred in relying on ...

The Book of Kells—an illuminated manuscript of the Christian gospels, the New Testament books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and ...

Understand the York Antwerp Rules, a set of maritime laws detailing ship and cargo owners’ obligations when jettisoning cargo to save vessels.

Crammed with culture, teeming with history and stuffed with gastronomic jewels, the ports of southern Europe come alive with Silversea When it comes to destinations best explored by ship, few can ...

Genetic ancestry is a concept that has long captured people’s imaginations. It’s no surprise that it’s been turned into a ...

We are left with a political struggle to fight racism and misogyny and also present a view of the classics that better accommodates our worldview.

Israeli authorities are encroaching on the ancient site of Sebastia in the West Bank to create a tourist attraction aimed at settlers, raising worries of the displacement of Palestinians.

Welcome to part three of this history of the world through objects, which we pick up between 1400 and 1500. As always, we're looking at 'things', that tell us about how societies organised themselves, ...