The ebook of the 21st Century may not have as devout a following as the codex of the ancient world, but it inspires strong opinions nonetheless. Will it displace the paper book in its turn ...

The Milesian School was based in Miletus and produced three great thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient Greece.

The list that we have today "only became fixed in the Renaissance," archaeologists Peter Clayton and Martin Price wrote in the book "The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World" (Routledge, 1988).

Until further revelations come to light, the world waits in uneasy anticipation, wondering whether this ancient book holds a prophecy—or a warning.

The "Book of the Dead" is a modern-day name given to a series of ancient Egyptian texts that ... Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World at the University of California, Los Angeles ...

Books were often dangerous. In the ancient world copies of great but contentious ... lover is the most beautiful sight of all.”) At school it was a woman, tall, thin and nervous, who taught ...

The mastery of Latin and ancient ... school Latin teacher. The prose is very lightly archaic and vaguely biblical, which helps to establish the author’s claim to an authoritative knowledge of ...

(Egypt’s Great Pyramids are one of the most iconic wonders of the ancient world.) Alexander ... Justin Pollard and Howard Reid, Penguin Books, New York, 2007.

Atop Mount Nemrut lies what some call the eighth wonder of the world: a religious sanctuary of 10 colossal statues surrounding a mound believed to hold the tomb of an ancient king. These ...