THE MIDAS TOUCH King Midas was obsessed with gold. When Silenus asked him to make a wish in return for his kindness, Midas wished that his hand turned anything it touched into gold. The wish was ...

Among them are a Roman marble head of Silenus from the 2nd century A.D., tagged at $150,000, and an elegant Roman marble statue of Aphrodite from the 1st century A.D., available for $250,000.

King Idomeneus was the ruler of Crete in the time of the Trojan War, and he participated in that event according to Greek ...

The Oscar-nominated short 'The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent,' is based on a real atrocity that occurred during the Bosnian ...

Looking at the situation today, it would've been a shame if Ralph Fiennes had turned down Voldemort. As a fan, I can’t ...

The Finnish writer Tove Jansson returned from a U.S. trip with a new perspective on home—and an enduring novel.

Sulla's ruthless campaigns in Greece, including the devastating siege of Athens, marked a turning point in Roman history.

One famous shot in the first minutes of the film, showing reflections in a smashed snow globe, anticipates the film’s grand themes of ambition and legacy and the cracked mirror of memory. Welles ...

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Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...