All those perfume and chocolate ads on the TV can only mean one thing: it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. If that ...

Despite being rivals, many Athenians admired the government, clothing, and austerity of the Spartans. Falling prey to “Laconophilia,” some began to adopt the mannerisms and even dress like their ...

A German woman who stole the top of an ancient column in Olympia over half a century ago has returned it to Greece, the Greek culture ministry said Saturday. The capital of the column, made of ...

Athens sprawls across the Attica Basin, a valley surrounded on three sides by mountain ranges and on the fourth by the Saronic Gulf. Constant expansion has introduced a sense of modernism to this ...

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government, there is no institutional role for the assembled people. However: ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a trove of 1,300-year-old bread loaves that brings one of the Bible's most famous verses to life. At Topraktepe, the site of ancient Eirenopolis in Turkey, researchers ...

During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great powers of Classical Greece. When in 431 bc the Peloponnesian War broke out, ...

The Corinthian helmet, circa 650-600 B.C., has a rounded top with small openings for the eyes and a distinctive nose-piece. Historian Herodotus mentions the helmet as a defining equipment of the ...

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Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Last week, Donald Trump’s White House anticipated the impending government shutdown like an album release, placing a massive countdown clock at the top of ...

Curtis Yarvin, a blogger known for his anti-democracy views, debated Yale Law School professor Jed Rubenfeld at a debate Tuesday evening hosted by the Yale Political Union, or YPU. Yarvin argued in ...

Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But when it comes to the built environment, that ambiguity is ...