In 1900, a British archaeologist named Arthur Evans began excavating the same site on the island of Crete where the Greek antiquarian Minos Kalokairinos had unearthed amazing finds some 22 years earlier...

From the dawn of history come two epic tales, the Iliad and the Odyssey, that introduce us to the first great heroes in Western literature...

Zeus, Gaia, Heracles, Medea, Pandora, Theseus and Odysseus: at the dawn of Western civilization, long before the written word was commonplace, there were great stories of gods and goddesses, heroes and adventurers, monsters and magicians...

What are the answers to existence? More than two thousand years ago, a few individuals in a small number of Greek city-states that included Classical Athens dedicated their lives to the pursuit of understanding and knowledge and, in doing so, changed the way we think about the world and ourselves today...