The difference in ancient paradises reveals a shared human desire for a perfect afterlife, though the details vary ...

Like Roman numerals, their system borrowed letters; like the Arabic numerals we still use, it only needed one symbol for each decimal place. In the 6th century BCE, the Greek alphabet used 24 letters.

Markings from late Neolithic Greece resembling these classical Greek letters, Delta, Epsilon and Lambda, they argued, could further complicate prehistory's relationship to classical ancient Greece ...

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

Instead, this letter has its origin in an ancient Greek symbol called a 'Christogram'. According to the expert, the nickname ...

The ancient Greek symbol for medicine was a similar one, called the Rod of Asclepius. The two are almost identical, but the Rod of Asclepius only features one snake wrapped around a short staff.

An ancient statue depicting the Greek god Hermes was uncovered by archaeologists inside an around 2,000-year-old Roman sewer in Bulgaria. Fox News Media Fox Business ...

This ancient symbol, also called the Staff of Hermes, depicts two snakes intertwining around a stick that is capped by wings. It’s used as a medical logo, but for almost all its roughly 5000 ...

The stories that remain of both real and mythical mothers let us know how important they were. Thanks in part to their connection to the life cycle, women in ancient Greece were both symbols of ...