As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...

The Ionian League, was a confederation of twelve Ionian Greek city-states located along the coast of Asia Minor.

The handful animal ghosts in the ancient world are often depicted not as friendly visitors but as mere tools for humans – and ...

After Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BC, a gold rush swept the kingdom, during which nearly 40 mines were ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...

The Mediterranean has a long and storied past, and this newly-discovered port has led to a surprising breakthrough in Ancient Greece.

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

But those experts may have a surprising new answer thanks to new research that shows the ancient people of the Philippines and ISEA may have mastered seafaring well before anyone else. Proving ...

In southern Greece, a monumental ancient tomb was discovered to have been used as a burial site for centuries before […] ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...