A new DNA study reveals that ancient Carthaginians had diverse ancestry and were not primarily descended from Phoenician ...

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

We find surprisingly little direct genetic contribution from levantine phoenicians to western and central mediterranean punic ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

Historian teams up with Chris Tomlin and Hillsong’s Ben Fielding to adapt rare music dating back to the third century.

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

The ancient Greek sanctuary and theater of Dodona, home to the oldest oracle, are part of a uniquely historic site in the ...

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 ...

Ancient Greek inscriptions on stone benches show that it was likely ... of the lecture hall…two large blocks bearing a Greek inscription were found. The letters were engraved into the white-plastered, ...

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