A new study of bronze fish from ancient China reveals early funeral beliefs, bronze casting methods, and long-distance metal ...

On the sacred island of Delos in Greece, birth and death were forbidden under strict ritual beliefs and Athenian control.

The Pythagoras Cup, Greece’s ancient “greedy cup,” offers a playful way to explore Greek wine, Samos, Santorini, history, ...

Greek mythology is filled with gods and legends but did people truly believe them? This video explores how myths were ...

Language Spoken in Ancient Egypt: There are more than 7,000 languages spoken around the world today. Some have been around for thousands of years, while others are much newer. Tamil, Sanskrit, Chinese ...

Where it began: Gyros trace their roots to ancient cooking traditions, influenced by Turkish doner kebab and Levantine ...

Pericles, a statesman in ancient Greece, has important lessons for contemporary political battles. We should heed him.

The ruins of Lagina in southwestern Turkey are home to what is believed to be the largest shrine to Hekate, an ancient ...

Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad.

Both nations were born from diaspora nationalism and war that displaced populations, yet only Israel is endlessly questioned.

In the mid-1700s, aristocrats, politicians and financiers who were part of an elite secret club would meet in caves hundreds ...

A team led by Professor Garrick Allen has recovered hidden text from 42 lost pages of Codex H, offering a rare glimpse into ...