The Romans famously claimed to be descended from the Trojans, but does this legend have any basis in actuality?

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Nikos Goulandris was president of Olympiacos for a relatively short period of time (1971 – 1974), but he managed to lead the ...

Why are Czechs still fascinated by the Celts? A look at František Palacký’s 19th-century account reveals what was known—and ...

When Ridley Scott announced a sequel to a great epic classic after 24 years, expectations were understandably high. With the ...

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For nearly two decades, millions of Italians, and thousands of Jews, believed in Benito Mussolini as the man to make things ...

A belief that Jesus travelled to India and adopted Buddhist teachings and methods has been around since at least the 19th Century when scholars attempted to explain the similarities between Christiani ...