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.

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

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

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

Was Jerusalem destroyed in 587 or 607 BCE? Often overlooked in this controversy is some evidence from Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian.

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

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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 ...

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 ...

Jha is the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health and former White House Covid-19 response coordinator. The likely next secretary of state, Sen. Marco Rubio, once said of the World ...