In ancient times Defamation was governed under Gautam Dharma Sutra  in India which explained that when a shudra abuses a person of a twice born cast, he will be punished. Defamation also has its ...

Ancient Greece and Rome may have handed down the image of rosy-cheeked Cupids, but their myths about him explore the messier ...

For centuries, the Vatican Library has been a vault of historical records, housing some of the world's most treasured texts, ...

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Sediment cores from the Aegean Sea reveal that human-driven lead contamination began 5,200 years ago—much earlier than expected. This pollution is tied to shifts in economy and land use, culminating ...

A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of ...

Evan Kleiman: I feel really lucky to have eaten candied fruit at the highest level from the oldest artisan confectionery in ...

Many varieties of ancient Greek healing herbs grow on "Asclepius Path," Mount Kerketion, where god of medicine, Asclepius, collected them.

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The so-called “stateless people,” who originally migrated from northern India to Europe in the 14th century, are today ...

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