It's been 226 years since researchers unearthed a priceless ancient artifact that helped to reveal the secrets of a lost ...

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 ...

Greek philosopher Plato's code has been broken, according to a historian who is a faculty member at the University of ...

A new study on the ancient Greek city of Helike shows how repeated earthquakes transformed the landscape and forced ...

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

Examine the ancient Greek slave classes and their role in maintaining the economy. How they were represented in art and ...

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

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.

Women Weren't Allowed to Attend Ancient Olympics? The original Olympic Games in ancient Greece took place in Olympia.

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.

Artificial neural networks are being used to decipher ancient texts, from the classical stalwarts of Greek and Latin to China’s Oracle Bone Script, ancient divination texts written on cattle ...