Archaeologists in Greece have uncovered a 2,000-year-old tomb near Corinth containing a gold Apollo ring with a healing ...

Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...

The tale of Salmoneus, the king who dared to imitate Zeus, reveals ancient fears of hubris, madness, and divine punishment.

Electra’s tragic myth inspired Carl Jung’s Electra complex, shaping psychological views on father-daughter relationships.

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...

An international research team has published a new study on one of the oldest known sites for the processing of animal meat ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there’s evidence of ...

COMMENT: For the fifth year running, Wonder Woman has been excluded from DC Comics’ Pride anthology, writes . The superhero ...

Sappho was a poet whose work was held to great acclaim by ... One of the most famous stories of women in ancient Greece was a society of warrior women known as the Amazons. Unfortunately, very little ...