Archaeologists have unearthed a “spectacular” ancient temple housing hundreds of statues dedicated to the Greek God Apollo.

The discovery was made at a London development site which had already yielded stunning mosaics and a rare Roman mausoleum.

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.

Theano of Crotone, an ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician in her own right, is often referred to as the wife of ...

“We will have 400 columns of Greek text to read,” said Nicolardi, noting the challenge for papyrologists in managing the volume of text produced, as reported by Nature.

Calligraphy, which means “beautiful writing” in Ancient Greek, is seeing a surge of interest from younger people who say it offers a meditative and creative escape.