This course surveys some important issues and tendencies in the history of Western Civilization from its origins through the early modern period, including ancient Mesopotamia, classical Greece and ...

A shimmering dream on the Nile has inspired creativity from the Harlem Renaissance to Kara Walker to Beyoncé. But how much can you play with the past?

Themed "Classical Civilizations and the Modern World," the just-concluded conference was co-organized by China and Greece. More than two millennia ago, the ancient civilizations of China and Greece ...

One case in point was Europe's Renaissance, which found its transformative ideas in Greco-Roman civilization and led to the rise of the modern Western world. Against the backdrop of decades of ...