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Plague mysteriously spread from Europe to Asia thousands of years ago. Scientists now think they know how it was transmitted

Researchers recovered the first Yersinia pestis bacteria genome from a Bronze Age animal. It reveals how a plague spread in ...
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Jorge Luis Borges Hymn to Greece: “A Greek Exiled in South America”

Jorge Luis Borges, gave a moving speech in Rethymno, Crete, that served as an ode to Greece and its civilization.
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The Ancient Greek Celebrations of Mid-August

The Synoikia was an ancient Greek celebration held in Athens between August 15 and 16 to celebrate the unification of Attica.

Hike the ancient route to Delphi once believed to be the center of the world

In the Amfissa Valley, an ancient footpath winds through thousand-year-old olive groves to the ancient ruins of Delphi — and ...

A year after fame found him in Paris, Stephen Nedoroscik, aka ‘Pommel Horse Guy,’ is back for more

Nor, insists the gymnast who became forever known as “Pommel Horse Guy” after winning a pair of bronze medals in Paris, has ...

Authoritarian rulers aren’t new – here’s what Herodotus, an early Greek historian, wrote about them

Herodotus tended to put his political philosophies into the mouths of historical figures such as Miltiades. He condensed his thoughts about government into what historians call the “Constitutional ...