We see glass objects every day and often don't think much about them. Mass-produced glass has become so cheap we barely think about the things it allows us to do. In fact, glassblowing has a ...

Roman history began in 753 B.C.E., when Romulus killed his twin brother and founded the city that would eventually rule the Mediterranean. That power would be built on slavery. No modern depiction of ...

We should not be too confident in our belief in anything,” Marcus Tullius Cicero, a statesman and philosopher in the Roman ...

Cost-of-living crises are not new. They have occurred at various times and places throughout the millennia. If we look at ...

Weeks of Israeli airstrikes have left Tyre, one of Lebanon’s oldest coastal cities, damaged and fearful even after a new ...

“It is the law of human life and of human nature that a new generation is ever coming forth,” said the Roman statesman Cicero (106–43 BCE). His view was echoed by the poet Simonides of Ceos (6th to ...

From the Roman Legions to 10th Special Forces Group, military challenge coins go back much further in military history than ...

Look up at the night sky on a clear evening and the Moon is usually the first thing that catches your eye. It has inspired ...

Asharq Al Awsat In eastern Libya, a small group of passionate archaeologists are striving to safeguard the ancient ruins of Cyrene and Apollonia -- sites first targeted by militant groups, then ...

From 20th-century classics to little-known treasures, queer authors share their favorite books about LGBTQ+ life ...

A long-lost poetry book, a forbidden love, and a classics scholar's quest to round out the censored story of a Victorian "man ...