An M with a small letter or set of letters above it stood for tens of thousands and higher. (Confusingly, in this instance the M represented the Greek ancestor of “myriad,” not the number 40.) ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a “spectacular” ancient temple housing hundreds of statues dedicated to the Greek God Apollo.

Instead, this letter has its origin in an ancient Greek symbol called a 'Christogram'. According to the expert, the nickname emerged from a long-forgotten joke about Jesus' initials.

Thanks to high-tech scanning, 2,000-year-old inscriptions on the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek "computer," can be read more clearly than ever before, revealing more information about the ...

Investigations primarily focused on a building referred to by the Greek letter gamma ("Γ") that appears to date to before 300 B.C. Archaeologists managed to uncover various stone blocks and ...

The ancient Greeks were incredibly talented mathematicians—but they rarely used numbers in their math. ... In the 6th century BCE, the Greek alphabet used 24 letters.