Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

A preliminary report of investigations done from August to October 2024 in Spain has highlighted the discovery of ancient Roman towers.

Researchers have discovered lead contamination in Greek soil dating back 5,200 years, making it the oldest known evidence of ...

A deeper look into the development of ancient Greek art and sculpture through time, covering various styles, forms and ...

Until now, scholars believed that residential activity in Philippi ceased after the 6th century AD. However, new findings—uncovered during excavation work for ...

A recent study conducted by geoscientists from Heidelberg University has uncovered the earliest known evidence of ...

An overview of Ancient Greek art, including painting, sculpture and architecture, and a look at how it changed over the years ...

Researchers have hotly debated where Alexander the Great is buried, with theories ranging from his homeland in Macedonia (now Greece) to Egypt ... when the first Roman emperor, Augustus (reigned 27 ...

Ancient lead pollution in the Aegean Sea may have started 5,200 years ago — 1,200 years earlier than previously thought.

The expansion of the Roman empire to Greece 2,100 years ago coincided with a rise in lead pollution as a by-product of an increased demand for metals, according to some of the earliest traces of of ...

Snowdrops bloom at the botanical gardens at Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, during unusually warm weather for January, with temperatures of 5 degrees ...