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

The tale of Salmoneus, the king who dared to imitate Zeus, reveals ancient fears of hubris, madness, and divine punishment.

Amazons fight Greeks on a terra-cotta lekythos (oil flask) from the fifth century B.C. Amazon battle scenes, known as Amazonomachy, were popular in ancient Greek art. Metropolitan Museum, New York ...

No matter where I have found myself on the Fourth of July, or what I have seen, it’s all felt comfortably familiar.

Rhodes, the largest island of the Dodecanese archipelago in Greece, possesses a history spanning millennia. While currently a ...

Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science ...