In ancient Athens, the agora was a public forum where citizens could gather to deliberate, disagree and decide together. It ...

A new study suggests that an ivory shoulder in ancient Greek mythology may represent the earliest prosthetic shoulder ...

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A remarkable archaeological discovery in Greece has unearthed the Tomb of the Lady of the Inverted Diadem, a burial that ...

Carved on a disk about the size of a dinner plate was writing in an unknown language. The debate has raged for a century: Is ...

The story of Phidippides and Pan, the god of the wild, stands as the most baffling episode of the Ancient Greek world—one of ...

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have unearthed a 2,700-year-old Assyrian inscription in clay that could shine a light on key events detailed in the Old Testament. “For me as a historian, this is somewhat ...

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Researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the U.K., have made the thrilling discovery of a 4,000-year-old handprint on an ancient Egyptian funerary object, in the course of preparing a major ...

Ancient Greece has somehow materialized in the heart of Nashville, and no, you haven’t accidentally wandered onto a movie set or through a time portal. You’ve discovered The Parthenon, Tennessee’s ...

Imagine turning a corner in Nashville and suddenly finding yourself face-to-face with ancient Greece. No, you haven’t accidentally stepped through some magical portal or onto a movie set—you’ve ...

Divers exploring the centuries-old Antikythera wreck retrieved intact pieces of the ship and found artifacts that shed light on life aboard the craft. The Antikythera shipwreck dates back to the first ...