This island was colonized by the Greeks during the time of Alexander the Great, who named it "Icarus" because of its ...

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The rich history of ancient Egypt involves power struggles, amazing feats of engineering, advances in writing and art, and ...

A roughly 4,800-year-old royal Mesopotamian cemetery in eastern Turkey appears to complicate existing theories about how some ...

The sweet treats in ancient Rome were made by filling dates with nuts (such as almonds or walnuts) and then sometimes rolling ...

The oldest reference in the first known writing — cuneiform — was not about gods or kings, but about beer. Lots of it. It was ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

The teenagers’ skeletons were unearthed at the cemetery of Basur Höyük where researchers previously uncovered evidence of ...

Here are eight proofs that the Bible is one story.