The ancient Greek physician and botanist Dioscorides is considered by many to be the father of pharmacology for authoring De ...

Nestled on the coast of the island of Euboea (Evia), the ancient city of Eretria was one of the most influential centers in ...

We can probably safely assume Rome, in many areas, was likely pretty dirty and rank-smelling. That said, there's evidence of ...

Learn about the 430,000-year-old stone tools and techniques that allowed ancient humans to butcher elephant meat for a hefty ...

The ancient Greeks were no exception. They used a range of techniques to prophesise the future, including interpreting the entrails of a sacrificed animal or throwing a loaf of bread into a fountain ...

Ninety percent of ancient Greeks are said to have lived within a day's walk of ... But here you can see battleships, recognisable by the bronze-tipped animal head at the front, here made to look like ...

Archaeologists say the marble coffin is the first of its kind found in the region. The story it depicts is more often seen in mosaics ...

The Chimera was a fearsome creature from Ancient Greece that was a mixture of animal features, said to inhabit Lycia in Asia Minor or Anatolia, Turkey. What features you ask? Well, take a lion ...

A giant burrowing salamander fossil challenges assumptions about amphibian evolution in prehistoric Appalachia. A giant ...

Underwater archaeologists have discovered remnants of a sunken military warship from the second century BCE in the Egyptian bay of Abū Qīr, located 32 kilometers northeast of Alexandria. The ship is ...