A groundbreaking discovery in the realm of ancient medicine has emerged from a 2,200-year-old tomb in southern China.

The practice of perfuming statues was deeply rooted in the religious and cultural rituals of ancient Greece and Rome. Texts ...

Ancient Greek historians disagreed on the origin of the Etruscans, who deeply influenced the Ancient Romans and traded with ...

Was Caligula misunderstood? New research shows the Roman emperor likely knew more about medicinal plants than historians once believed ...

Fragments of an ancient Greek text describing a 3rd-century invasion of Greece by the Goths, have been discovered in the Austrian National Library.

Homer's language, used in his epic poems, which laid the foundations of Western literature, was never spoken but echoes in Modern Greek.

These 15 images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest remind us of the grandeur of Greece ...

Imaging technologies have allowed historians to read the text inscribed on an ancient Greek astronomical calculator called the Antikythera mechanism.

Newly deciphered text from ancient scrolls may have finally revealed the location of where Greek philosopher Plato was buried, along with how he really felt about music played at his deathbed ...

Archaeology & History Fragments of Previously ‘Lost’ Euripides Tragedies Have Been Translated The discovery is among the most important in ancient Greek literature over the past 60 years.

Consisting of 133 lines of text in ancient Greek, it is a court document concerning a case of 'sophisticated tax fraud' by two Jewish men during the first half of the 2nd century AD.