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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

There's no better time to read about LGBTQ+ history and heroes than Pride Month 2025. These nonfiction books remind us of the strength and resilience of the community.

And it is for such poems that Sappho has come down to us as history’s first lesbian—literally “from Lesvos.” Sappho, following the poetic traditions of Archaic Greece, tended towards floral and ...

The Ancient Greek poet Sappho, by Soma Orlai Petrich (c. 1860) Credit: Wikipedia/Public domain. Sappho sang of desire, passion, and love mostly directed towards women. As new fragments of her work are ...