Did the ancient Greeks name their ships? The answer to that is yes. And with rare exception, the ships were given female names.

All good things must come to an end. I wrap up this series on Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey with a look at the associated books.

The last king of Egypt’s New Kingdom managed to stave off threats from without before being brought down by a conspiracy from within.

Arsinoe II, daughter of Ptolemy I and an enduring figure of the Lagid dynasty, became the model for succeeding Ptolemaic queens.

After the collapse of the Mycenaean palaces in ca. 1200 BC, there is little evidence for destruction on this scale until the late eighth century.

Special guest Lieve Donnellan joins the regular team to talk about networks in the ancient Mediteranean, with special reference to Cyprian Broodbanks’ book, The Making of the Middle Sea.

The idea that Cleopatra, the famous last queen of ancient Egypt, owed her powerful position to her beauty persist, but why does her appearance really matter?

Thanks to the MET, readers can now experience the ancient site of Palmyra and learn more about its history and modern plight.

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a famous politician and lawyer, whose life was cut short when he was killed at the order of Mark Antony.

“Hoplites” of the seventh century BC were “men of bronze”. A few centuries later, they had shed most of their armour, as a marble lekythos in Leiden shows.