Unique ceramic figures along with a 2,500-year-old special type of water-basin have been discovered in the Ancient Greek city ...

If you’ve ever attended a high-energy seminar where a speaker yells, “unleash your greatness!” while pacing in an expensive suit reflective of poor fashion sense, congratulations – you’ve witnessed ...

A common complaint in America today is that politics and even society as a whole are broken. Critics point out endless lists of what should be fixed: the complexity of the tax code, or immigration ...

The few that could be opened were philosophical texts written in ancient Greek. But most of the scrolls were so badly damaged, they were considered illegible. More recently, researchers managed to ...

ATHENS, Greece -- Earthquakes rattled Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini every few minutes through the night and into Wednesday as authorities bolstered their emergency plans in case the ...

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

490-480 BC). The scene is thought to depict Hercules’ attack on the city of Troy. (Glyptothek, Munich). Credit: Egisto Sani, Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 The issue of who was considered Greek during the ...

And now it carries a handsome cash prize: $1 million for anyone who can decipher the script of the ancient Indus Valley civilization. Relatively little is known about the creators of the script ...

This unique degree programme offers training in an unparalleled range of ancient languages and their associated history, culture and textual traditions. Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin ...

in northwest Greece. In August, construction workers installing underground water pipelines in a town north of Athens uncovered an ancient mosaic of dancing satyrs. A monumental building with lion ...

A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the world’s earliest civilizations.