Since the first exchanges between India and Greece, the ancient Greeks were fascinated by the stories of India's mysterious gymnosophists.

Lucian Freud was a British Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1922. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Numerous key galleries and ...

Cimon was a statesman and general who died conquering the Persians in Cyprus, but his men abandoned the siege to give him a ...

Here are 10 ancient mysteries researchers still can’t explain—but maybe you can. Get Reader’s Digest ’s Read Up newsletter for more history, humor, cleaning, travel, tech and fun facts all ...

The young conqueror fell suddenly and fatally ill at an all-night feast. Now, a Stanford historian has found a potential ...

Vergina, Greece is a small, unassuming town in modern times, but it played a crucial role in the ancient world as Aigai. Then ...

Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science.. The ...

One of the notable pockets of depth in the UBS Art Collection is a group of fifty-four works by acclaimed artist Lucian Freud. Freud is often compared to the great seventeenth-century master Rembrandt ...

Lucian Bernhard Advertising Art Collection, 1920s-2000, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Arrangement Collection is arranged into four series. Series 1: Exhibitions, 1999-2000 ...

For the past five years, archaeologists at the ancient city of Stratonikeia in southwestern Turkey have been excavating a ...

Genetic analysis of skeletons buried in a Neolithic proto-city in Turkey reveals that female lineages were important in early ...