The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.

The sun rises behind the Ara Pacis Mundi in Medea, Italy, on Nov. 5, 2024. Its name translates to Altar of World Peace.

A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.

While ancient Greece is one of the best known cultures of antiquity, there are no surviving historical narratives covering ...