The Peshtigo Fire of 1871 stands as a grim testament to nature’s fury, claiming over 1,200 lives and marking it as the ...

Homer's epic emerged from the eastern Mediterranean, but Hollywood's latest adaptation continues a long tradition of appropriating ancient Greece for an invented western identity Matt Damon, ...

As Christopher Nolan's adaptation dominates the box office, a Homer scholar argues its real triumph isn't the spectacle — ...

Plato’s 2,400-year-old vision of the afterlife suggests that we choose our own next life—and bear responsibility for that ...

A painted panel deep in a Spanish cave may push the human relationship with mind-altering plants back thousands of years, earlier than anything previously known.

On a Turkish hillside overlooking the olive-covered slopes outside Izmir is a cave known to generations of locals as the ...

The Devil’s Mouth is Prime Video’s latest spooky addition to its iconic roster, and while cave-diving with an aggressive shark is the last thing I would add to my already adventurous bucket list, here ...

Mount Ida on Crete, known to locals as Psiloritis, is the location where, according to Greek mythology, Zeus was born.

From 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Matrix, Arrival to WALL-E, these sci-fi films made us look at the world around us ...

What's the vibe like at Colossal Cave – does it feel more adventurous, educational or peaceful? A bit of all three. The 45-minute, half-mile standard tour is story-driven and family-friendly, and the ...

Side by side: a belladonna (Atropa belladonna) flower and detail of the El Castillo bell signs. Flower photo: Flobbadob on Wikimedia Commons | Cave painting photo courtesy of Geneviève Von Petzinger, ...