Ancient followers of the Eleusinian Mysteries may have used a highly toxic fungus to create psychedelic hallucinations during ...

Pokemon’s 30th anniversary highlights the shift from a restrained Kanto Pokedex--with just one Ghost line and one Dragon powerhouse--to a vast ecosystem of experimental types and mythic beings.

Over on the games side, Sons of Sparta, a Metroidvania charting Kratos' younger days in Ancient Greece, was surprisingly shadowdropped earlier in February. That also came bundled with the news that ...

There were schools of thought in Ancient Greece that speculated about extraterrestrial life, in trying to answer questions ...

Pente Grammai was a popular Ancient Greek game of strategy during which players relied on tactics and foresight to control ...

Ancient Greece wasn’t just philosophers and democracy, punishment could be brutal. From exile and execution to the terrifying legend of the Brazen Bull, this is how the Greeks kept order. Scientists ...

Mr. Woodhouse is a documentary filmmaker and the author of the newsletter Social Studies. Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada recently described the world that President Trump is dragging us into ...

Ancient Olympians were renowned for their strength and agility, but were any of these athletes women? And were there other sporting opportunities in which women in ancient Greece could compete? The ...

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Before telescopes, ancient Greek astronomers relied on naked-eye observations of the night sky to understand the universe around them. The meticulous star catalog belonging to one of the best of these ...

This article originally appeared in The Conversation. If you were to visit a bookshop in the ancient world, what would it be like? You don’t just have to imagine it. The ancient Roman writer Aulus ...

The forced Christianization of Hellas / Greece in the fourth century and after wounded ancient Hellenic / Greek culture but did not completely destroy. In medieval Greece (wrongly dubbed Byzantium), ...