Aristotle’s beach

Missing for centuries, where are the final resting places of some of history’s greatest figures?

With their potent blend of wild looks and mystery, Britain’s ancient sites have an enduring magnetism–and there are far more of them than you might imagine, says Tom Howells

Like a novel Odysseus, film director Uberto Pasolini ...

Edmund Stewart is Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek History at the University of Nottingham

Life’s pleasures immortalized in a marble sculpture

For 5000 years a boulder stood unremarked in a Dorset valley, until one summer day an archaeologist noticed something curious about it...