All are thought to date from various periods of ancient Greek history and will be assessed by a state archaeological service. Police also confiscated metal detectors and scanning equipment ...

From Vikings to Beethoven: what your DNA says about your ancient relatives Phoenician city-states shared languages — recorded with an alphabet that was a precursor to Greek and Latin letters ...

Gladiators also were pitted against animals. While there are depictions of these contests in ancient mosaics and texts, actual forensic evidence has been elusive, until now. Scientists have ...

But the ancient Greeks beat all of these individuals to the punch by more than 2,000 years. As Adrienne Mayor, a classicist at Stanford University, argues in her 2018 book Gods and Robots ...

Francis said he felt the more ancient mass was "being used in an ideological way" in reaction to modernity, including the more modern Vatican II mass. The mass consists of the "Liturgy of the Word ...

An often overlooked ancient pyramid in Mexico was filled with pools of a rare element in its underground chambers, leading to new theories that the structure may have had a shocking hidden purpose.

The lecture hall of an "impressive high school" from an ancient Greek settlement was recently uncovered in Italy – with the discovery highlighting the similarities between ancient and modern ...

The ancient Greek courtesan Lais of Corinth was famous for her divine beauty and extravagant demands. Painting of Apelles and Lais by Jules-Claude Ziegler. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Public Domain The ...

A study suggests that the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to about 4,500 years ago, this would move up the introduction of ...

DEAR DEIDRE: I WAS constantly accused of cheating by my possessive boyfriend – while he had a secret wife and two children at home. After divorcing a few years ago, I was keen to get myself a ...

A few months later, hunters returned to ambush another horse family. This unusually detailed reconstruction of an ancient communal hunt and its aftermath comes from a new analysis of an ...