If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be a mystery.

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For centuries, innumerable countries were ruled by an entrenched, typically inherited, political class: the "aristocracy." The term comes from the Ancient Greek words "aristos", meaning best, and ...

Ancient Greece and Rome may have handed down the image of rosy-cheeked Cupids, but their myths about him explore the messier ...

A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of ...

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A multi-dimensional mathematical theory applied to texts belonging to the classical Greek Literature spanning eight centuries ...

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Fedez, during the rehearsals for Sanremo 2025, showed off a new tattoo, on his neck, a Latin inscription: here's what it is ...