For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

When a cave explorer stumbled across what she thought was trash, she couldn't believe it when she realised what she'd ...

An excerpt from Plato's Republic, the 'Allegory of the Cave' is a classic commentary on the human condition. It is an example of the philosophical underpinnings of Lovecraft's thought and fiction.

How can we understand this political moment better? Let’s go back to Plato and his cave. Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” from the Republic, helps us understand populism in the U.S. today ...

In Plato's allegory, Socrates lays out a scenario in which prisoners, held in a cave since birth, can see only one wall, illuminated from behind them by fire. All they can see are shadows, which they ...

The Match Factory has acquired international sales rights for “An Urban Allegory,” a short film by Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher and French artist and director JR, ahead of its world ...

Taking inspiration from Greek Philosopher Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, asking what would happen if one of the prisoners managed to free themselves from their chains and escape from the cave ...

Human beings living in an underground cave … here they have been since their childhood” that introduces Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” Adapted from “Reading Genesis” by Marilynne ...

No matter our achievements, we, as a people, have been unable to celebrate our gallantry because we are like brave and gallant soldiers trapped in the scene described in the allegory of the cave.