For the first time, scientists have discovered the organic residue of psychedelic plants within an ancient Egyptian artifact, ...

In Evropos, a village in northern Greece, Danis Koumartzis carves out the wooden sound box of a traditional lyre before ...

Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined ... Vegetarianism wasn't common in the ancient world. But it did have some adherents, often from ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys 150 years of Black artists turning to ancient Egypt.

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English indie rocker Daniel Blumberg scored Brady Corbet’s epic “The Brutalist” with less than a dozen musicians, recording ...

Several decades ago, a national park was declared for some fifty square miles surrounding Troy and UNESCO declared it a World ...

Greek statues are admired worldwide for their extraordinary beauty, but do they truly reflect the actual appearance of the ...

The sistrum was one of the most sacred musical instruments in ancient Egypt and was believed to hold powerful magical properties. It was used in the worship of the goddess Hathor, mythological... The ...

Such is its complicated timeline, that any attempt to sum up the history of the Amalfi coast might confound both academics ...

Composer Harry Gregson-Williams understood the assignment when director Ridley Scott asked him to score “ Gladiator 2 .” “It ...