New research suggests the Romans used a method known as "hot mixing" to produce self-healing concrete, which allowed them to ...

First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic’s Books section: A different kind of materialism The return of MAGA’s ...

Every hint, nudge and outright answer you need to complete today's NYT Strands puzzle.

Arthur Sze, the national poet laureate appointed by the Library of Congress last month, visited Queens College, in Flushing, ...

Lunstrum is the author of five books of fiction, and this latest won the 2025 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction.

In the shadow of 2,000-year-old petroglyphs, Saudi Arabia’s Rawi storytellers are breathing life back into a tradition once ...

The community-made album, Caneuon Siop (Shop Songs), has everyone from school children to the mayor of Machynlleth waxing ...

Motherhood is also present in the Metamorphoses in more subtle ways. = Alison Sharrock, a professor of Latin, has pointed out ...

Eva Palmer Sikelianos was a prominent figure in the movement toward reviving ancient Greek artistic and cultural practices.

We can imagine someone saying “my love is literally a rose,” but that is to use “literally”  metaphorically, as an emphatic adverb, like “really.” ...

The origins of ancient Greek city names like Athens and Olympia reflect mythology, history, and the development of Greek ...