On Friday, Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. the University of Maine School of Performing Arts (SPA) presented a screening of the documentary “Six Centuries, Six Years.” The film portrays the journey of Iranian ...

Long before the rise of Islam, the Middle East was home to powerful kingdoms, complex religions, and vast trade networks that ...

Propaganda is not what it used to be. These days, a crummy movie like “2000 Mules,” a big cinematic lie about the Big Lie that rampant voter fraud denied the reelection of the last U.S. president, is ...

Correction: The original version of this article misquoted Jeffrey Spier as saying the Getty Villa has mostly Greek, Roman and Tuscan classical art. In fact, the Getty Villa has mostly Greek, Roman ...

Coco Chanel called luxury “a necessity that begins where necessity ends.” When form exceeds function, it expresses another kind of need, the claim to status. The British Museum’s “Luxury and Power: ...

A gold Achaemenid plaque featuring a winged lion-griffin, dated to between 500 and 330 B.C.E. Courtesy of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Who were the power players in the ...

History Hit’s Ancient Adventures: Libya, a 50-minute exploration of one of the world’s least-seen archaeological frontiers, ...