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 ...

Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in ...

A new exhibition in London (open until February 2026) called Thirst: In search of freshwater highlights how civilizations ...

Researchers from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the University of Oxford, and the University of Innsbruck have ...

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Rhodes, the largest island of the Dodecanese archipelago in Greece, possesses a history spanning millennia. While currently a ...

Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ...

The ancient Greek name for the watermelon was the pepon. Physicians, including Hippocrates and Dioscorides, praised its many healing properties.

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 ...

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 ...