Here's what the ancient Greeks and Romans can teach us about the environment and ourselves. From Roman soldiers in crowded ...

Armed with new tools, scholars are finally able to read papyrus scrolls long deemed too fragile to open. The breakthrough ...

One of the greatest milestones in the Armenian history was the invention of the Armenian alphabet in 406 A.D. It was a ...

Ancient DNA analysis has revealed a detailed picture of the life of a toddler who died in southern Italy 17,000 years ago, possibly due to a congenital heart condition. In 1998, researchers ...

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Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Many people have at least heard of the name Orestes, which is the name of a prominent figure of ancient Greek mythology, but how many of us are actually ...

The genetic profile of the Xiaohe goat was similar to that of goats belonging to ancient Eurasian steppe people, meaning the Xiaohe may have learned animal husbandry and cheese-making from them.

Photograph by Marco Argüello Built in the archaeological site of the Ancient Agora, Stoa of Attalos houses historic artefacts such as the head of Nike, the Greek goddess of victory. Photograph by ...

Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...