The Howland Cultural Center hosts an evening of engaging presentations on howler monkey testicles, breastfeeding through the ages, and the intersection of Pythagoras and the Pink Panther.

The story of Ruthven and her Doomsday Cat Cult is now the basis for a Discovery documentary. Interviews with her followers ...

Perseus of Macedon was the last Greek king of ancient Greece before it came under Roman rule following defeat in the Battle of Pydna.

Ancient Greek Tyrant Agathocles of Syracuse led a daring invasion of Africa, shaping Sicily’s history and influencing ...

"[There's] nothing in the records [from] when you would expect the most advanced ancient Greek society, which we would assume was most polluting," he said. "[It] opens up a load of other questions ...

An ancient Greek snake altar made to appease the gods of the underworld was just unearthed in southern Turkey. Though the ...

At a ceremony this week, Greece's culture minister officially accepted ... linking the development of ancient metal smelting practices to long-term environmental change Ella Jeffries The discovery ...

Professor Alice Roberts takes to the railways of Greece and Turkey as she learns about ancient Greek civilisation, which has had a powerful effect on modern life. In the northern Greek city of ...

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.

Rivers may have operated on a global scale around 3.5 billion years ago. The new find comes courtesy of ancient rocks in China and South Africa. A change in rock chemistry around that time ...

By Niki Kitsantonis Reporting from Athens The authorities in Greece on Monday closed schools and deployed emergency services on the Aegean island of Santorini, one of the country’s most popular ...