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 ...

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

Wonder Woman is so popular that she’s never been out of print. She is one of the best-known global symbols of female ...

Fragments of two lost ancient Greek plays by playwright Euripides found in Egypt were remade into a play combining theater / ...

From the pyramids of Egypt to the jungle-choked ruins of Angkor Wat, from the magical desert capital of the Nabateans in ...

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

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 ...

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