Today, Greece’s landscapes are universally known; the immaculate white houses with their blue roofs are even one of the main ...

Bats are unique animals. As the only mammal capable of flight, they also have the particularity of sleeping upside down.

Opposing Egypt and Syria against Israel, the Yom Kippur War is remembered for its swiftness—it lasted only 18 days. It is ...

In July 1948, veterans of World War II competed in an archery event. All the participants shared one key characteristic: they were in wheelchairs. Organized by a doctor named Ludwig Guttmann, this ...

Nuclear cultural impacts can be analyzed through the nuclear allegory of Godzilla, Cold War literature, the dystopia of the ...

A city built by a demigod? At least, that is how the Romans imagined the birth of Pompeii, as well as its neighbor Herculaneum, which they believed to be the work of Hercules. However, the reality is ...

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, symbols of the grandeur and splendor of ancient civilizations, continue to captivate the collective imagination through the texts that describe them. Built ...

No, men’s penises were not smaller in Antiquity. An American study recently showed that the average size of the erect penis has supposedly increased by 24% in thirty years. But this physiological ...

Titian spent his early years in Pieve di Cadore, in the Veneto region. He came from a well-off family—his father was a militia captain and mine inspector. However, despite this privilege, his formal ...