Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's Crito and Phaedo, his accounts of the last days of Socrates in prison in 399 BC as he waited to be executed by drinking hemlock. Both works show Socrates ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...

A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the world’s earliest civilizations.

Global professional services firm Athena LLC is expanding its presence in the Philippines with two additional offices, driven by the robust demand for highly skilled virtual assistants worldwide.

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

Contractors give a spring cleaning to Robert Aitken's 1935 statue of Socrates, near the National Archives, in 2017. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post) Philosopher Agnes Callard revels in ...

Elon Musk has no power to put anyone in jail, but his fantasy about a “long prison sentence” for “60 Minutes” reporters is dangerous nonetheless. If you want to know why, just ask Elon Musk.

For more than a century, the ancient Indus script has mystified researchers. Left behind by the Indus Valley civilization, which emerged more than five millennia ago in present-day India and ...

In ancient Greece, Athena was the goddess of war, handicraft and wisdom. Princess Beatrice has worked for a number of charities, including the Teenage Cancer Trust and co-founding the Big Change ...

Successive governments trying to look "tough on crime" have driven a rising prison population that's overwhelmed the system, according to a report. The Independent Sentencing Review also said ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Prison violence is a critical issue in the U.S. criminal justice system, affecting both inmates and staff. Recent policy briefs propose strategies to address ...