In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Among the recovered items were 15 ancient oil lamps, 17 figurines or fragments, several ceramic vessels, and a marble sculpture believed to depict a child’s head. All are thought to date from various ...

A Germany university revealed the discovery of an ancient Greek lecture hall in Agrigento, Italy — highlighting important ...

The lecture hall was discovered during excavations at Agrigento, the site of the largest ancient Greek settlement in Sicily. Photo by Thomas Lappi and Monika Trümper, FU Berlin, Institute of ...

These include giving the date according to the Egyptian and Greek calendars ... the Antikythera Mechanism represents the apex of ancient engineering expertise. And despite modern technology ...

They sit at the centers of galaxies and shine as black holes devour nearby matter, releasing energy that outshines entire galaxies. The telescope targeted one of the first and most famous quasars ...

Believed to be the oldest known Greek auditorium ever discovered, this find provides scholars with an opportunity to understand the experiences of students and teachers in one of ancient Greece’s most ...

The Ancient Greeks used black and white pebbles and the Romans were delighted ... whose influence I have mentioned before in the pages of the Cyprus Mail. Stas was a great teacher and champion of ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, carved into ...

The ulokeros goat owes its uniqueness primarily to its curved horns, from which it derives its name—”ulos” in ancient Greek means curved, and “keros” means horn. Credit: AMNA It’s a goat with a ...

He was a Greek mathematician and the head librarian at the Library ... a feat that stands as a testament to the ingenuity of ancient science. Using the differences in the angle of the sun’s rays at ...

Primordial black holes are ancient mysteries, born in the universe’s earliest seconds. Unlike regular black holes, they weren’t formed by collapsing stars. Instead, they emerged when extremely ...