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Some decisions are too big to be left to chance — like who to marry, where to live, or what you’re going to do with your life ...
The ancient Greeks shared the Classical world with many fascinating neighboring cultures who rarely receive much mainstream attention.
Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed a remarkably preserved royal tomb, Tumulus T-26, dating back to 750 B.C. at Gordion, ...
Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered a 2,800-year-old royal tomb which researchers believe belonged to one of King Midas’s relatives.
Turkey’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, announced the discovery of an exceptionally well-preserved royal burial chamber dated to the 8th century BCE at the archaeological site of ...
“Based on these artifacts, we estimate that this is a member of the royal family associated with Gordion and Midas,” said Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, Turkey’s Minister of Culture and Tourism. Gordion was the ...
Boy George & Culture Club explores the romance, but it also tells the much broader story of Culture Club and the English New Romantic scene that gave birth to them. “I was most surprised by how ...
Which is why it is striking to note that Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg share a favorite author: Iain M. Banks, the Scottish science fiction writer best known for his Culture series. Banks is an odd ...
What is Swedish culture? Some obvious answers might spring to mind: Abba, the films of Ingmar Bergman, Pippi Longstocking, IKEA. It’s an almost impossibly broad question — but one that Sweden ...
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Homer’s account of the Trojan War in the Iliad supports the Greek origin of Troy. He presents the Trojans as speaking the same language as the Greeks, having the same culture as the Greeks, and ...
It was clear from a young age that Marcus Dadd would grow up to work with animals in some capacity. At his childhood home in suburban Sydney, he lovingly tended to a menagerie of pets: birds, turtles, ...